[Novalug] August Meeting + Picnic

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Wed Aug 11 21:34:52 EDT 2010


I have updated the list of things people are bringing.

The list is at www.kevla.org/picnic/stuff.txt

I have updated the list with items people said they are bringing.

Additional items are noted on the list that we need volunteers to bring.

Thanks for your support.

Jay

> The August meeting of NOVALUG will be held in Arlington VA in support
> of a picnic honouring the birthday of Linux.
>
> Originally, ARPANET ran the Network Control Program (NCP). The NCP had
> many limitations (including address space) and was in time superseded
> by TCP/IP. However, users were reluctant to make the transition. So,
> in 1982, Vinton Cerf and Jon Postel brutally forced users to switch
> from NCP to IPv4 by programming the Internet gateways to block all NCP
> traffic.
>
> Now, almost 30 years later, it is the IPv4 address space that is
> approaching exhaustion. If current IPv4 address allocation policy
> continues, then IANA will allocate its last remaining /8 block in 2011
> 06, and the RIRs will allocate the last of their IPv4 addresses in
> 2012 04. Yet the demand for addresses will only grow due to the rapid
> proliferation of hand-held devices and the ongoing roll-out of
> Internet services in the third-world.
>
> IPv6 is a complete rewrite that offers a vast address space, new
> services, and solutions to old problems. Yet, as with the change from
> NCP to TCP/IP, adoption has been slow due to inadequate transition
> planning and lack of incentives to change---until recently. While it
> is unlikely that someone like a Cerf or Postel will pull the plug, the
> ongoing demand for addresses means increasing pressure to change.
>
> Both events will be held at 'The Barkley', 1016 South Wayne Street,
> Arlington VA, 22204. Guests attending these events should come to the
> main lobby, sign in, and will be directed to the proper location.
> South Wayne Street can be reached by Metro bus lines (16 Series)
> running from Pentagon or Pentagon City metros.
>
>
>
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