SV: how 200 /48's fails the job [Re: [address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria]

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> While I understand and accept your argument here, whether 
> we'd ever run out of address space imho has nothing to do 
> with /48's. How many /32's have we got to play with ( 
> 536870912 per /3 by my calculations) OK, that's still a big 
> number. But if we allow everyone who wants to multihome a 
> /32, there is the possibility that we could run out - not in 
> the near future that's for sure.
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> Many companies are still discovering how/if they can use the 
> internet. As more and more uses for the 'net are thought up, 
> companies are going to become more and more reliant on the 
> 'net to the point where they will/may struggle to function 
> without it - somewhere around that point, all companies will 
> need to have a permanent connection and in my mind a 
> permanent connection means multihoming.
> 
> How many companies are there in this world ?
> Thus how many potential multihomers have we got ?  -  more 
> than the number of /32's available, I doubt it (I don't think 
> there are 4 billion companies).
> We're a along way off home users multihoming, so perhaps 
> we'll never run out of /32's. But I for one would not like to 
> bet on it.

Shared reluctancy to bet on it, as a basis of building policy at
least.

Cheers,

mh (as6453)

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> Jon
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