Yes but the conditions at which you calculated IP allocation are set to change if AI comes into the picture for provisioning instances, and IoT catches on more than it already has, to name just a couple of use cases.

And who knows if there’s going to be internet in space to the extent that space aliens will be at some future netops or governance conference?  

Yes you have done the math and yes v6 exhaustion looks impossible at this time, but that is what people thought about V4 to the extent that classful allocations were a thing, “MIT has more IPs than China” was a persistent sort of meme long after it became invalid and so on.

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 03, 2026 at 04:55:12PM +0000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> I rather suspect we will have this conversation again in another oh .. five or six years and let?s then see.

Leo's math is hard to argue with.

It's maths for people that do not grok "big numbers" but can understand

"100 years"...  (and we're using way *less* than "a /12 per RIR per year"

right now).

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