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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:
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:
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:
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:
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
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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
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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!
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