Oh, I wish I could be there tonight. I love Corvallis, but sometimes it is a pain living "in the sticks".
David Mandel On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Michael Dexter <[email protected]> wrote: > > REMINDER: PLUG Advanced Topics April Meeting > > IPv6 Networking with Ted Mittelstaedt: Part 1 > > The first in a multi-part series on IPv6 networking by Ted Mittelstaedt, > the author of The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide. > > Part 1: Theory & management & ISP routing, as well as current events in > the IPv6 realm. For example, did you know that Nortel just sold > Microsoft a huge chunk of IPv4 legacy addresses for something like 7 > million dollars? This has really turned the tables on the game. Up until > that happened the thought in the community was that the large ISP's > would be the biggest pushers of IPv6 deployment. But this is an early > indicator of what's going to happen. The large ISPs are going to spend > millions in vacuuming every scrap of IPv4 out of all the corners on the > Internet before they will start pushing their users to go to IPv6. That > is a serious problem for any small ISP that does not have a stock of > IPv4 because they will be run out of numbers and new customers will not > be interested in their IPv6 offerings as long as the large ISPs still > are handing IPv4 out. > > Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue > > When: TUESDAY, April 19th, 7PM > > BYO Food and Beverages > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG-announce mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
