No kidding. He should be nominated to head up coordinating transition planning to IPv6. ;-) Not that I'm complaining, GOSIP paid my contract fees in 1996/1997 (sic). Most of these clowns don't realize how hard these mandates are to stop if they turn out to be in error, especially if they make it into RFP requirements again (which they undoubtedly will). Ooof. I wouldn't mind seeing IPv6, but as a market forces driven thing not as a mandate. Besides, what all these incredibly wise folks (NOT) are missing is that this isn't like GOSIP at all. IPv6 can happily exist without IPv4 having any clue about it, which is one of the cool things about it actually. So, anyone mandating this conversion should be taken out back and shot for exhibiting spectacular lapses in clue. IPv6. Coming to a toaster near you.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Fergie (Paul Ferguson) Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 11:38 AM To: dts@senie.com Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
Thought thief. ;-)
- ferg
-- Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com> wrote:
Just in case anyone was wondering, U.S. gummint agencies will be screaming in migration agony for the next couple of years. ;-)
GOSIP II anybody? Will it be different this time than it was with OSI? Everyone had to scramble in the late 1980s to get OSI stuff done, then the gov't never used it.
-- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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