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

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 08:53:41PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> 2^128 IP addresses should be enough for anybody, eh?

As I said, please apply math 101.

Over the last 15 years, I've heard the phrase "and 640k is enough for
everybody" a *lot* of times, but usually not by people that have actually
*done* the math.

64 bits for numbering networks is a *lot*.

32 bits (or even just 29) for numbering ISPs is a *lot*.

Of course it's not infinite, and it won't last for numbering lots of
other galaxies, but this is not the problem we're going to be faced
for the next few generations - if compared to the number of people the
earth can sustain, and to the number of enterprises of a certain category
that are likely to exist in the next 50 years, the IPv6 space is "big 
enough".

If I'm wrong, I'll buy you a beer in 20 years.

Gert Doering
-- 
did you enable IPv6 on something today...?

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