Bye Bye, V4

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

I hope the girls are cute ;-)

Ted

On 1/31/2011 10:15 PM, - - wrote:
> You mean like this? :)
>
>
> Leading Global Internet Groups make Significant Announcement about the
> Status of the IPv4 Address Pool
> _______________________________________________________________________
>
>
> APNIC invites the Internet Community to be a part of an important
> milestone in the history of the Internet.
>
> Much has been written in the international media over the last few
> weeks about the dwindling pool of Internet addresses using the original
> Internet protocol, called IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4). This
> week, IANA allocated two /8 address blocks to the Asia Pacific Network
> Information Centre (APNIC).
>
> As such, the Number Resource Organization (NRO), along with the
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the
> Internet Society (ISOC), and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) will
> be holding a press conference and presentation to make a significant
> announcement and to discuss the global transition to the next
> generation of Internet addresses.
>
>     Thursday, 3 February 2011, at 09:30 (UTC -5)
>
>     Rod Beckstrom, ICANN President and CEO
>     Raul Echeberria, NRO Chair
>     Lynn St. Amour, ISOC President and CEO
>     Olaf Kolkman, IAB Chair
>
>
> Watch remotely
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> Off-site community members can participate, via live web streaming at:
>
> http://www.nro.net/news/icann-nro-live-stream
>
>
> Spread the Word
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>
> Carry the message back to your colleagues. Use the #IPv4 in your
> tweets.
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
>
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>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at ipinc.net
> <mailto:tedm at ipinc.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 1/31/2011 9:16 PM, Garry Glendown wrote:
>
>         Well, looks like we've made it - APNIC got #7 and #6, so we're
>         starting
>         the endgame now ... :)
>
>         -garry
>
>
>     We were starting the end game a few years ago I think.  ;-)
>
>     The March ICANN meeting will be interesting.  I will bet that
>     they have lined up every newspaper reporter they can find and
>     in a big showy ceremony, with dancing girls twirling batons,
>     IANA will hand enormous check-sized posters to each of the
>     RIR representatives listing the last /8 that they get.
>
>     Then each of the RIR's will take a turn at the mic and state
>     what they predict will be the end date that they will burn
>     through their last assigned /8
>
>     The reporters will write furiously and for about 3 days the
>     major news organs will dissect the story.
>
>     Then everyone will go back to Justin Beiber's haircut and the
>     entire thing will be forgotten.
>
>     Ted
>
>