FW: [menog] Microsoft offered $7.5M for Nortel's IPv4

[M. El Zein]

What is the importance of this subject to have 10s of email messages because of it!!!... The 7.5M$ already spent... 




> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:07:46 -0700
> From: surfer at mauigateway.com
> To: menog at menog.net
> Subject: Re: [menog] Microsoft offered $7.5M for Nortel's IPv4
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> > ---------- ahmed at tamkien.com wrote: ------------
> > From: "Ahmed Abu-Abed" <ahmed at tamkien.com>
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> > : IPv4 is depleted and resistance to IPv6 is futile.
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> > You forgot the "you will be assimilated" part...  :-)
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> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_%28Star_Trek%29
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> > "Individual Borg rarely speak. Instead, they send a collective audio message to their targets stating that "resistance is futile", followed by a declaration that the target in question will be assimilated and its biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to their own."
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> > Where the IPv6 IETF Overlords are the borg.  >;-)
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> On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:09 AM, Ahmed Abu-Abed wrote:
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> > More likely "resistance to IPv6 is futile, you will be tunneled" , this will get the Borgs in all homes. Then they take over and assimilate !
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> ----------------- owend at he.net wrote: -------------
> From: Owen DeLong <owend at he.net>
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> IPv6 is not the Borg. You will join, or, the world will pass you by and you will become
> increasingly disconnected from everyone else.
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> There is no invasion. There is no forced assimilation.
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> IPv4 is depleted and there simply aren't viable or maintainable options today outside
> of IPv6.
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> Touched a nerve, eh?  :-)  Don't forget to notice the smiley face in my previous email that you're responding to.  I didn't say IPv6 is the Borg.  IPv6 is just a bunch of bits collected together and transferred in a certain way.  Hardly the Borg...  :-)
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