[address-policy-wg] "too many" /64 or /48 assignments causing address space exhaustion

On 2 May 2011, at 21:45, Andrey Semenchuk wrote:

> Yes, IPv6 provide much more address space but if this address space  
> will be wastefully allocated as IPv4, history will repeat itself

This is just a statement of the bleedin' obvious Andrey. However you  
don't seem to have any data that shows how current IPv6 allocation  
policies could repeat those earlier mistakes.

> So, the strong recommendation to give customers between a /48 and a / 
> 64 (and /64 even for a single machine) - is the right way to lay the  
> foundation of a new address space exhaustion

If the Internet doles out a billion /64s every day -- several orders  
of magnitude more than any forseeable assignment rate -- it will take  
50 million years to deplete the IPv6 address space. I'm happy to leave  
that problem to the next generation. :-)