<div>Who knows where we will be in 200 years. We may have colonised other planets by then and require much more IP's then we can imagine now...<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:15 PM, jason andrade <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason@pobox.com">jason@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Matt Shadbolt wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">I'll play devils avocado.<br></blockquote><br></div>Holy guacamole Batman.
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">I think that's fairly short-sighted. 1000 per person may seem enough now but<br>who knows in 30-40-50 years? Nano technology may see us need more? How about<br>
an IP for every thread on your favourite jacket?<br><br>Obviously there has to be a limit - and I'm sure IPv6 will be enough™ - but<br>just because we don't think we'll use them all now, doesn't mean we wont ;)<br>
</blockquote><br></div>+1.<br><br>I can't remember which conference but there was an interesting talk from a<br>MIT professor who was talking about the concept of virtual networks for every<br>person (IIRC gih was also a speaker) 'on the internet'. In essence we'd be walking around with our own personal firewalls dealing with all the interactions<br>
we'd have with the net.<br><br>Expanding the idea further to look at the concept of not just a network per<br>device but new networks for interactions between devices (even if they were<br>created and torn down within seconds) and those interactions with other<br>
devices - it isn't the number of devices that killed v4 (though it didn't help),<br>it's the exponential rate of interactions we'll see coming that'll be interesting.<br><br>Which led me to a question i hadn't seen brought up here - does the v4 network<br>
ever get turned off ? Anyone brave enough to make some predictions for future<br>historians looking through mailing list archives ? :-)<br><br>regards,<br><font color="#888888"><br>-jason</font><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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