[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 09:19:17PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> See there's a lot of stuff out there - currently only in vendor
> documents / IPv6 forum publicity material ..  Toasters, phones, cars
> etc with v6 stacks.  Which might exist.

The number of devices inside a /64 is fully irrelevant to the discussion,
because there is no way to exhaust a /64 with physical devices.

The only interesting question here is

 - are there enough "ISP sized chunks" to number each company that could
   reasonably show up at a RIR and declare to be an ISP

 - are there enough "end site sized chunks" to number each possible end
   site (home user or corporate customer)

and if you do the math, and look up a few things in Wikipedia, like
"population on earth", you'll see that indeed, 64 bits of prefix space
is a lot.

It's not enough to give ISPs a "class A" (/8), "class B" (/16) - but giving
ISPs a "class C" (/24) each should even work out.  But we're not doing that,
we give whole ISPs the equivalent of a single IPv4 address (/32).

Gert Doering
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