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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical IP foresight
Just to put a little perspective on this whole debate about forseeing your IP address needs, I was cleaning out my desk and found a copy of a message sent on June 5, 1984 to me (then [email protected]) thanking me for getting the X.25 connection to Japan working. The whole Internet has evolved in the 11 years since. I'm a fairly serious amateur student of technology history, and I'm not aware of any other technology that has grown at comparable speed. I think it would be nice if we gave the folks at the InterNIC a break, and recognize that they are attempting to deal with a situation which is basically impossible. The only thing which I can see offering any real hope is IPng, with RFC 1597 as a plausible stopgap - at least I hope it's plausible since I'm recommending it to clients, most of whom are paranoid about security and want a firewall anyway. -- Walt -------
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