[124612] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Fri Apr 2 20:33:06 2010
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 00:32:28 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2bpe1l6vv.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 09:25:08AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> > IPv6 as effectively reindroduced classful addressing.
>
> but it's not gonna be a problem this time, right? after all,
> 32^h^h128^h^h^h64 bits is more than we will ever need, right?
>
> randy
well... looking at a diet analogy, when .gt. 50% of your
diet is HFCS and filler, its not real healthy. the way
most folks are using IPv6, .gt. 50% of the bits are wasted
as filler (got to love me some ::)
so it seems like a lot, yet folks have already predicted the
demise of IPv6 in the next 20years. (Klensin I think it was)
--bill
