Hi, On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:20:47PM -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
I hope you'll learn a little bit of math in the next few years - there are enough /64s. Whatever you want to do with it.
some of us are old enough to remember when we thought that about 32 bits of address.
Now *this* part of math is easy. "Less IPs than people around are not going to make everybody happy". Yes, IPv6 could eventually be too small, if you end up ging every single RFID chip its own /64 - but nobody is proposing that. If you give every "reasonable" subnet a /64, I find it hard to envision a way to connect 4 billion subnets to a single (and small!) ISP.
i really wish i could find the famous quote that said (about computer memory addressing, i believe) that, no matter what size you choose, it will be too small sooner than you planned.
So what's your suggestion? Turn off the Internet, and go fishing? Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 81421 SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 D- 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-234