[address-policy-wg] applicability of a request for 60000 IPv4 addresses/systems in one shot...

Hi Michael,

O/H michael.dillon at bt.com έγραψε:
[...]
> The thing that worries me about giving any kind of special support
> to any sort of VM deployment is that it will cause the IPv4
> address space to run out sooner. The consumption rate is no
> longer constrained to the number of CPU chips produced but
> now can grow faster which leads to a power law increase in 
> demand.

Yes, yes and no worries:
The reason being that VM resources are much more "elastic" in their
deployment and once/if they create an excaustion of address space,
it will become possible to do a smoother migration to IPv6, rather
than reaching a day-0 where you either get IPv6 or nothing at all.
(because in the meantime any VM-based solutions will also improve,
since the incentives will be so high and migration paths doable)

> It won't be too long before someone suggests changing policies
> to no longer accept virtual machines as a justification for 
> address space.

We all fully understand the implications. We wondered if there was
already a previous explicit discussion about it (aparrently not, hm?),
at policy level, exactly because of the reasons you mentioned above.

But, I find the line of thinking that wants life on the Internet to be
independent of its physical incarnation is genuinely forward-looking.

cheers,
Fotis