Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch at muada.com>]

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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