[anti-abuse-wg] Re: Interaction between the RIPE and anti-abuse communities, was Draft Anti-Abuse WG Minutes ? RIPE 61

2^128 IP addresses should be enough for anybody, eh?

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 06:54:40PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:
>> > Let me give you a hint: IPv4 will run out this year.  So what ever you
>> > do, you better get prepared for that.
>>
>> Right. And future generations wont thank us if the same lackadaisical
>> policy enforcement means large swathes of v6 space get glommed on, and
>> we repeat this conversation a couple of decades later.
>
> Please apply basic math 101 here.  There's 4 billion times the amount
> of *networks* in IPv6 than the amount of single IP addresses in IPv4.
>
> Normal LIRs in IPv6 get a /32 - so to "glomm" (whatever that means)
> "large swathes", to have a significant impact on the 4 billion /32s
> out there (maybe only 500 million if you only count FP001), they will
> have to come back *fairly* often for new /32s.
>
> Size does matter.
>
> Gert Doering
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