[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria

>> and we once thought 32 bits of address should be enough for ever
> *I* wasn't part of that "we" - and the math is a *little* bit different
> here.
> *I* wasn't part of that "we"

one of the few benefits of age is perspective

> To answer Jon Lawrence on his "address space depletion worries": please
> *do* the math, just once, and then stop this often repeated but invalid
> argument.

gert, i am too busy to find the quote for you right now, but
the essence is that EVERY size limit that has EVER been done
in computing has proved to be to small in the long run.

so perhape prudence in the presence of finite resource is not
stupid.  if v6's only feature is that you can be wasteful of
the space, that is still not going to sell it.

this too wa known at the time.  but the ivtf was driven by a
rush to silence "the internet is running out of addresses
space" press and dropped the variable address length proposal,
and also decided routing was not as important as political
expedience.

randy