9 May
2006
9 May
'06
12:13 p.m.
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 10:55 +0100, Tim Streater wrote:
The fact that there are many more bits to allocate.
The actual number of bits is largely irrelevant to what we're talking about here. The real determinant of the problem is the number of discrete allocations and assignments announced, and this will be a function of the number of discrete networks required to service the globe. This will increase as connectivity increases, but it will ultimately plateau at some stage, or at least it will reach a stage where growth (i.e. rate of increase) will drop significantly. And as I said already, because of the allocation policies in place, ipv6 table growth will always trail the equivalent network prefix requirement for ipv4. Nick