Re: Threads that never end (was: Waste will kill ipv6 too)

2018-01-03 Thread Owen DeLong
Huh? I’m saying they are network identifiers and not something else (like POP names, or geographical indexes, or inventory control numbers, or crypto currency or whatever else). So I’m not sure I understand your point here. Owen > On Jan 2, 2018, at 15:58 , William Herrin

Re: Threads that never end (was: Waste will kill ipv6 too)

2018-01-02 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 4:59 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > I agree we all have a responsibility to hold the line on addresses being > network identifiers Hi Owen, The delicious irony here is that EUI-64 supporting SLAAC is exactly that: an identifier. If we hold the line there,

Re: Threads that never end (was: Waste will kill ipv6 too)

2018-01-02 Thread Owen DeLong
I agree we all have a responsibility to hold the line on addresses being network identifiers and to some extent network locators (unfortunately). I agree we have a responsibility to sparsely and liberally allocate within reason (where /8 to ITU isn’t within reason, but a /12 might be, and even

Re: Threads that never end (was: Waste will kill ipv6 too)

2018-01-02 Thread bzs
On January 1, 2018 at 22:09 trel...@trelane.net (Andrew Kirch) wrote: > Lets say the worst case scenario is that we exhaust IPv6 at a rate > MASSIVELY higher than planned. Can't we all just do this again in like 80 > years? I don't get why anyone cares so much that this thread won't die. >

Re: Threads that never end (was: Waste will kill ipv6 too)

2018-01-01 Thread Andrew Kirch
Lets say the worst case scenario is that we exhaust IPv6 at a rate MASSIVELY higher than planned. Can't we all just do this again in like 80 years? I don't get why anyone cares so much that this thread won't die. Speaking of dying, I'll be dead by then anyway. Andrew On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at

Re: Threads that never end (was: Waste will kill ipv6 too)

2018-01-01 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 13:36:32 +0900, Randy Bush said: > thomas watson: i think there is a world market for maybe five computers "The Yale Book of Quotations quotes an I.B.M. source that this '... is a misunderstanding of remarks made at I.B.M.'s annual stockholders meeting on April 28, 1953. In

Re: Threads that never end (was: Waste will kill ipv6 too)

2017-12-30 Thread Randy Bush
> If anyone wants to TL;DR moe: 2^128 is effectively infinita larry: we thought 2^32 was effectively infinite curly: we'll never need more than 640k thomas watson: i think there is a world market for maybe five computers

Re: Threads that never end

2017-12-30 Thread Large Hadron Collider
I haven't even ... This thread's going to turn into another thread that never ends. On 30/12/2017 15:39, sizone!math wrote: On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 06:42:46AM -0800, Stephen Satchell said: > On 12/29/2017 09:05 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > >the good thing about these long threads, which have

Re: Threads that never end (was: Waste will kill ipv6 too)

2017-12-30 Thread sizone!math
On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 06:42:46AM -0800, Stephen Satchell said: > On 12/29/2017 09:05 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > >the good thing about these long threads, which have ZERO new > >information, is having a KillThread command in one's mail user agent. > >get a life! > >I no longer use

Threads that never end (was: Waste will kill ipv6 too)

2017-12-30 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 12/29/2017 09:05 PM, Randy Bush wrote: the good thing about these long threads, which have ZERO new information, is having a KillThread command in one's mail user agent. get a life! I no longer use KillThread. Instead, I sort my inbox by subject, and use the Delete key liberally. NANOG