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<br>What is the importance of this subject to have 10s of email messages because of it!!!... The 7.5M$ already spent... <img style="border-style:none;vertical-align:text-bottom" alt="Sarcastic smile" title="Sarcastic smile" src="http://gfx1.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr04/ltr/emo/sarcastic_smile.gif" width="19" height="19"><br><br><br><br><br>> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:07:46 -0700<br>> From: surfer@mauigateway.com<br>> To: menog@menog.net<br>> Subject: Re: [menog] Microsoft offered $7.5M for Nortel's IPv4<br>> <br>> <br>> > ---------- ahmed@tamkien.com wrote: ------------<br>> > From: "Ahmed Abu-Abed" <ahmed@tamkien.com><br>> > <br>> > : IPv4 is depleted and resistance to IPv6 is futile.<br>> > ---------------------------------------------------------<br>> > ---------------------------------------------------------<br>> > You forgot the "you will be assimilated" part... :-)<br>> > <br>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_%28Star_Trek%29<br>> > <br>> > "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."<br>> > <br>> > Where the IPv6 IETF Overlords are the borg. >;-)<br>> -----------------------------------------------------------<br>> -----------------------------------------------------------<br>> On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:09 AM, Ahmed Abu-Abed wrote:<br>> <br>> > 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 !<br>> ----------------------------------------------------------- <br>> -----------------------------------------------------------<br>> ----------------- owend@he.net wrote: -------------<br>> From: Owen DeLong <owend@he.net><br>> <br>> IPv6 is not the Borg. You will join, or, the world will pass you by and you will become<br>> increasingly disconnected from everyone else.<br>> <br>> There is no invasion. There is no forced assimilation.<br>> <br>> IPv4 is depleted and there simply aren't viable or maintainable options today outside<br>> of IPv6.<br>> ---------------------------------------------------------------<br>> ---------------------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> 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... :-)<br>> <br>> scott<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > ----------------------<br>> > --------------------<br>> > ---------------------<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Menog mailing list<br>> > Menog@menog.net<br>> > http://lists.menog.net/mailman/listinfo/menog<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Menog mailing list<br>> > Menog@menog.net<br>> > http://lists.menog.net/mailman/listinfo/menog<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Menog mailing list<br>> Menog@menog.net<br>> http://lists.menog.net/mailman/listinfo/menog<br> </body>
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