> On 5-okt-2007, at 6:38, Michel Py wrote: > > > Nothing is going to happen the day the last v4 block is allocated. > > Nothing is going to happen for days. Nothing is going to happen for > > weeks. > > Sure. > > > Nothing is going to happen for months. > > Not so sure. The big ISPs that work in blocks of a million or so > addresses will be the first ones to see their requests turned down > because addresses are out of stock. Presumably, they'll need those > addresses to connect new customers. If you happen to request a new > connection around that time you'll see an effect. > > >> Does anybody have any established and sustained opinion on that > >> and could provide verifiable if not objective data? How many > >> critical bugs were really found in typical systems? > > > We will never know that. There were scores of people who billed > > tons of > > money to take care of it; you don't expect that they will admit to > > spending all this time finding nothing, would you? > > I think some pretty much have. > > I'm sure that if the Y2K issue had been ignored there'd been lots of > problems with individual systems. The part that was unlikely (but not > impossible) from the beginning were all the domino effects. A router > won't stop routing if it is set to the wrong time of day. I'm pretty > sure a plane won't stop flying, either. But in that particular case, > "pretty sure" is not exactly good enough... There have been fighter jets that couldn't cross the date line as the navigation computers crashes/gave wrong readings. The pilots that discovered this had to be escorted back by other aircraft with working navigation. > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf