Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

[Mark Smith <nanog () 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc nosense org>]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:18:57 -0700
Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:

> On Oct 18, 2010, at 5:28 AM, Curtis Maurand wrote:
>
> > On 10/18/2010 8:16 AM, ML wrote:
> > > > And +1 on the "pioneers" comment too.
> > > >
> > > > Paul.
> > >
> > > IPv6 Hipsters..Doing it before it was cool.
> > IPV4 ->easy();
> > IPV6->really().Really().Difficult();
> Have you done IPv6?
>
> I have... It's not even difficult(), let alone really().Really().Difficult().

A lot of things are hard if you've never dealt with anything else. If,
OTOH, you'd dealt with IPX or Appletalk before IPv4, then IPv4 was
quite hard (why the complexity?! I do know now, but only after having
looked into the history of IPv4 - it's a just series of neat hacks!) ...

Regards,
Mark.