[ipv6-wg] RIPE NCC Makes Record Number of IPv6 Allocations

Receiving the address space is one thing, using it is another. In other words in the case of IPv6 to date allocation has not necessarily meant implementation. It will be more interesting when all of the IPv6 allocated to date is actually put in use. I note that this is true in all of the regions.

Ray

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> From: ipv6-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:ipv6-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf
> Of Shane Kerr
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:36 PM
> To: Alex Le Heux
> Cc: ipv6-wg at ripe.net
> Subject: Re: [ipv6-wg] RIPE NCC Makes Record Number of IPv6 Allocations
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> Alex Le Heux wrote:
> > This announcement was posted on the RIPE NCC News & Announcements
> > webpage yesterday:
> >
> >
> > RIPE NCC Makes Record Number of IPv6 Allocations
>
> <snip>
>
> > The deployment of IPv6 across the Internet has been a subject of
> growing
> > global interest, particularly as it relates to the diminishing pool
> of
> > free IPv4 address space, and the impact that this will have on the
> > ongoing growth and future stability of the Internet.
>
> A Nobel prize winner recently gave a speech about IPv6:
>
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> Years from now, the next generation will ask of us one of two
> questions. As they
> survey our actions, and our inactions they will either ask: What were
> you
> thinking? Why were you deaf, dumb and blind to the consequences of what
> was
> being done to the truth, of what was unfolding? Or they will ask a
> question,
> that I prefer them to ask and I truly believe they will ask. I want
> them to look
> back on 2007, at the beginning of this century, and ask about us: How
> did they
> find the moral courage to rise and face the crisis so many said was
> impossible
> to solve? How did they find the ability to raise their level of
> consciousness
> about the truth that was confronting our world? How did they find the
> courage to
> act?
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>
> I know, I know, that speech was *not* about IPv6. I admit I just really
> like
> the phrase "moral courage", and was looking for an excuse to quote it.
> Still,
> there are similarities: the non-adoption of IPv6 is nobody's fault,
> nobody has
> the power to do anything about it, the world will suck if nothing is
> done, and
> nobody in business really cares because it doesn't create profit.
>
> - --
> Shane
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