[AusNOG] IPv6 Addressing

[Mark Andrews]

In message <D538835A-EAA9-484D-9787-0CF989AD9647 at Hughes.com.au>, David Hughes w
rites:
> 
> On 07/04/2011, at 12:00 AM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 
> > Or because the numbers are very different.  There are 14 million
> > /24 sized networks with IPv4.  IPv4 was always going to run out if
> > everybody the planet has a network.  You can't even give everyone
> > a address.
> 
> But there's the rub Mark.  I don't think Vint Cerf ever expected =
> everyone on the planet to get an address so 4,294,967,296 v4 addresses =
> should have been heaps.  Similarly, based on the usage at the time, Bill =
> Gates was probably right in saying "640K ought to be enough for =
> anybody".=20
> 
> Perhaps your crystal ball is clearer than mine but I have no idea how =
> people are going to be using v6 addresses in 40 years (approx age of =
> IPv4) so it would be prudent to use the addresses wisely and efficiently =
> even if you think "18,446,744,073,709,551,616 /64s ought to be enough =
> for anybody".

I don't have a perfect crystal ball either but 1000 sites per person in
the world will probably be enough.  Home, car(s), person.
 
> But, as has been pointed out, this has been done to death and is verging =
> on religious rather than technical so probably best we move on.
> 
> 
> David
> ...=
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