-----Original Message----- From: James Hess [mailto:mysidia@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 2:08 PM To: George Bonser Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: legacy /8
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 11:31 AM, George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com> wrote:
Any school teaching v4 at this point other than as a legacy protocol that they teach on the second year because "they might see it in the wild" should be closed down. All new instruction that this point should begin and end with v6 with v4 as an "aside". But that isn't.
They would be doing the student, their customer, a disservice to not teach both, with emphasis on V4, just because one possible speculated outcome in the years ahead is that IPv4 becomes a legacy protocol. Schools do not have crystal balls, and they can't know how important IPv4 or IPv6 will be to those taught later.
I've been taking some networking classes for my undergrad college degree, and there've only been about 3 mentions of IPv6 during the whole time I've been here (at supposedly a high-tech school). Also, did I mention we're still being taught classful networking? I've never heard my professors udder the CIDR acronym or talk about subnetting. Hopefully this changes as students progress into the higher-level classes, but I wouldn't want to be the one attempting to get a job with no knowledge of what's changed since my professor was in school. ---------- Stephen (Trey) Repetski skr3394@rit.edu | skrepetski@gmail.com srepetsk.net | RIT '13, TJHSST '09