[address-policy-wg] 2005-08 New Policy Proposal

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:20:47PM -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
> > I hope you'll learn a little bit of math in the next few
> > years - there are enough /64s.  Whatever you want to do with
> > it.
> 
> some of us are old enough to remember when we thought that
> about 32 bits of address.

Now *this* part of math is easy.  "Less IPs than people around are
not going to make everybody happy".

Yes, IPv6 could eventually be too small, if you end up ging every
single RFID chip its own /64 - but nobody is proposing that.  If you 
give every "reasonable" subnet a /64, I find it hard to envision a way 
to connect 4 billion subnets to a single (and small!) ISP.

> i really wish i could find the famous quote that said (about
> computer memory addressing, i believe) that, no matter what
> size you choose, it will be too small sooner than you planned.

So what's your suggestion?  Turn off the Internet, and go fishing?

Gert Doering
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