[ipv6-ops] Re: The day has come

[bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com]

and yet... there is this from a social networking site...

IANA IPv4 Pool Exhaustion Day
Monday, February 14 at 12:00am at Worldwide
Marking the day that IANA run out of IPv4 address space to allocate to the regions of the world

Geoff?

--bill


On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:04:39PM -0800, Aaron Hughes wrote:
> Do you believe they can hold off until 13-18 March 2011? Seems to me the RIRs would be chomping at the metaphorical bit to get this executed in order to help with scare tactics and give greater weight to reach out and therefore v6 adoption...
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> Aaron
> 
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:56:21AM -0800, David Conrad wrote:
> > On Jan 17, 2011, at 9:44 AM, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> > > 	Me, I bet on a splashy PR move.
> > 
> > A clear sign of the Apocalypse: I'm agreeing with Bill Manning... :-)
> > 
> > It wouldn't surprise me at all if the NRO and ICANN have agreed to have Bill Clinton (his administration was the instigator of ICANN and rumors are that he'll be giving a keynote) push the button in front of TV cameras at the ICANN meeting in SF that triggers the final allocation with Rod Beckstrom and the RIR CEOs looking on approvingly.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > -drc
> 
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