Hi, On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:12:56PM +0100, Mirjam Kuehne wrote:
This week, we saw the 10,000th Local Internet Registry (LIR) received IPv6 addresses. The first block of IPv6 addresses was allocated from IANA to the RIPE NCC in 1999, so we have been distributing IPv6 addresses for 17 years. In this new article on RIPE Labs we track the policy developments that have made it progressively easier for LIRs to get the IPv6 they need:
Nearly old enough to drink beer, this stuff :-) - and indeed, this has been a bit of a fight to reach the IPv6 address policies we have today, which seem to mostly work for everyone. Quite an achievement, and thanks to everyone involved ;-) Gert Doering -- still no idea how UUnet UK managed to beat me, back in 1999, in getting the *first* ever IPv6 allocation made by the RIPE NCC... -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279