[111455] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lyall)
Thu Feb 5 22:00:03 2009
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 15:59:54 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Simon Lyall <simon@darkmere.gen.nz>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Ricky Beam wrote:
> telling me I need 18 billion, billion addresses to cover 2 laptops, a Wii=
, 3=20
> tivos, a router, and an access point?
You have more computing power in your house than the Fortune 500 did 40=20
years ago to manage their entire billing, payroll etc.
They had thousands of people and paid millions of dollars per year just to=
=20
make sure that scarce resource was not wasted.
You use it for watching TV shows and browsing the web a few hours per day.
As others have pointed out giving every person on the planet a /56 and=20
every business a /48 is only going to take up 0.01% of the total IP space.
Allocating 0.01% of space to an "experiment in abundance" which will=20
probably turn out to be enough space than will ever be needed this century=
=20
seems a good risk to me.
Sure we could have allocated just 0.00001% of space to the experiment=20
instead but then plug-and-play might not work out of the box or people=20
would have to apply and pay for larger network spaces or I'd only get one=
=20
network in my house ( and never get my SIP phone to work cause of NAT ).
You may find this article interesting ( especially the first page ):
"The sysadmin=A2s mantra: Manage time, think =A1abundance=A2 and softly doe=
s it"
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/272429/sysadmin_mantra_manage_time_=
think_abundance_softly_does_it
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