Created Sunday 09 December 2007
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poem: POEM-RIPE55-SONG form: FORM-PROSE descr: At his first RIPE meeting, Gary wrote this and performed at descr: the closing plenary. It was truly awesome. descr: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0 descr:
text: A long long time ago text: I can still remember text: when my laptop could connect elsewhere. text: text: And I tell you all there was a day text: the network card I threw away text: had a purpose - and it worked for you and me. text: text: But 18 years completely wasted text: with each address we've aggregated text: the tables overflowing text: the traffic just stopped flowing... text: text: And now we're bearing all the scars text: and all my traceroutes showing stars. text: The packets would travel faster in cars text: the day the routers died. text: Chorus text: So bye bye, folks at RIPE 55. text: Be persuaded to upgrade it or your network will die. text: IPv6 just makes me let out a sigh, text: but I s'pose we'd better give it a try. text: I suppose we'd better give it a try. text: text: Now did you write an RFC text: that dictated how we all should be? text: And did we listen like we should that day? text: text: Now were you back at RIPE 54 text: where we heard the same things months before text: and the people knew they had to change their ways? text: text: And we knew that all the ISPs text: Could be future-proof for centuries. text: But that was then not now. text: Spent too much time playing WoW. text: text: Oh there was a time we sat on IRC text: making jokes on how this day would be. text: Now there's no more use for TCP text: the day the routers died... text: Chorus text: So bye bye, folks at RIPE 55. text: Be persuaded to upgrade it or your network will die. text: IPv6 just makes me let out a sigh, text: but I s'pose we'd better give it a try. text: I suppose we'd better give it a try. text: text: I remember those old days I mourn text: sitting in my room, downloading porn. text: Yeah, that's how it used to be... text: text: When the packets flowed from A to B text: via routers that could talk IP. text: There was data that could be exchanged between you and me. text: text: Oh but I could see you all ignore text: the fact we'd fill up IPv4. text: But we all lost the nerve text: and we got what we deserved! text: text: And while we threw our network kit away text: and wished we'd heard the things they say. text: Put all our lives in disarray text: the day the routers died... text: Chorus text: So bye bye, folks at RIPE 55. text: Be persuaded to upgrade it or your network will die. text: IPv6 just makes me let out a sigh, text: but I s'pose we'd better give it a try. text: I suppose we'd better give it a try. text: text: Saw a man with whom I used to peer, text: asked him to rescue my career. text: He just sighed and turned away. text: text: I went down to the net cafe text: that I used to visit everyday. text: But the man there said I might as well just leave. text: text: And now we've all lost our purpose, text: my cisco shares completely worthless... text: No future meetings for me text: at the Hotel Krasnapolsky. text: text: And the men that make us push and push - text: like Geoff Huston and Randy Bush. text: Should've listened to what they told us text: the day the routers died... text: Chorus text: So bye bye, folks at RIPE 55. text: Be persuaded to upgrade it or your network will die. text: IPv6 just makes me let out a sigh, text: but I s'pose we'd better give it a try.
text: author: GF3634-RIPE admin-c: LIM1-RIPE mnt-by: LIM-MNT source: RIPE # Filtered
person: Gary Feldman address: Demon Internet / Thus plc address: Gateway House address: 322 Regents Park Road address: Finchley, London N3 2QQ UK phone: +44 845 272 0666 fax-no: +44 845 270 0097 e-mail: gfeldman@demon.net nic-hdl: GF3634-RIPE remarks: Demon Internet Hostmaster mnt-by: AS2529-MNT source: RIPE # Filtered
person: Limerick Coordinator address: RIPE Network Coordination Centre (NCC) address: Singel 258 address: 1016 AB Amsterdam address: The Netherlands phone: +31 20 535 4444 fax-no: +31 20 535 4445 e-mail: limerick-wg@ripe.net nic-hdl: LIM1-RIPE remarks: Role object for limerick working group administrator(s) remarks: This is the most secret object in the whole database remarks: Don't ask who's behind this, nobody knows remarks: Feel free to send in new limericks! mnt-by: LIM-MNT source: RIPE # Filtered