[AusNOG] IPv6 Addressing

Matt Shadbolt matt.shadbolt at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 11:24:41 EST 2011


>
>
> 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.


I'll play devils avocado.

I think that's fairly short-sighted. 1000 per person may seem enough now but
who knows in 30-40-50 years? Nano technology may see us need more? How about
an IP for every thread on your favourite jacket?

Obviously there has to be a limit - and I'm sure IPv6 will be enough™ - but
just because we don't think we'll use them all now, doesn't mean we wont ;)


On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Jones, Rick
<Rick.Jones at au.harveynorman.com>wrote:

> We are erring on the side of caution - every person on the planet can have
> billions of subnets each, so we can afford to give each and every broadband
> connection a /64 to play with.
>
> And I for one will be throwing my hat in the air when we finally get to say
> goodbye to NAT (we loved you NAT because you saved our bacon - but we wish
> you well in your next endeavour).
>
> R.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:
> ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of David Hughes
> Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2011 9:38 AM
> To: Brett O'Hara
> Cc: AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] IPv6 Addressing
>
>
> On 07/04/2011, at 9:19 AM, Brett O'Hara wrote:
>
> > Didn't Geoff say based on current policies, ipv6 allocations may run out
> in
> > 300 to 400 years?
>
> Ahh, but who says things will stay as they are?  How about a hypothetical.
>   We have soooo many addresses we don't really need NAT anymore do we?  So
> how about we include a framed-route for each broadband connection.  So
> instead of a BB subscriber consuming a single IP address (i.e. their
> router's outside address) they now consume a /64 as well.  That'd eat
> another million+ /64's for Australia alone.
>
> What else may change that we haven't thought about yet?  As I said, my
> crystal ball isn't that good so I'd prefer to err on the side of caution (or
> at least efficiency).
>
>
> David
> ...
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