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Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

2007-12-18 02:57:39
On 18 dec 2007, at 3:12, Ned Freed wrote:

Getting back to the actual topic under discussion, let me see if I've got this straight: We're going to switch off the IPv4 network and force people to use IPv6 during a plenary, a time when laptops are at maximum density and hence
wireless connectivity is most problematic?

The humanity! Next thing we'll have to be offline flying to/from the meeting location! Oh, wait...

I was unable to attend the last three IETFs in person so maybe something has changed, but at previous meetings my success rate at keeping a wireless connection going during the plenary hasn't been all that great. This means IPv6 issues are likely going to be conflated with wireless issues and heaven
knows what else.

1. The wireless performance during plenaries has been getting a lot better now that we also have 802.11g and 802.11a and many people actually use those rather than collide with each other on 802.11b (and maybe the reduction in attendance helps a bit too)

2. These are exactly the issues we should discover when there is still some time left before some people will be forced to start running this experiment 24/7 because there are no IPv4 addresses left for them

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