[117866] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP customer assignments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Owen)
Mon Oct 5 17:21:41 2009
In-Reply-To: <20091005184356.GA54050@typo.org>
From: Chris Owen <owenc@hubris.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:20:44 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 5, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote:
> Whenever you declare something to be "inexhasutable" all you do is
> increase demand. Eventually you reach a point where you realize that
> there is, in fact, a limit to the inexhaustable resource.
This is where I think there is a major disconnect on IPv6. The size
of the pool is just so large that people just can't wrap their heads
around it.
2^128 is enough space for every man, woman and child on the planet to
have around 4 billion /64s to themselves. Even if we assume everyone
might possibly need say 10 /64s per person that still means we are
covered until the population hits around 2,600,000,000,000,000,000.
Chris
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