[124639] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Burwell)
Sat Apr 3 03:12:10 2010
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:11:24 -0700
From: Jim Burwell <jimb@jsbc.cc>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <m26349kvuv.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/2/2010 21:23, Randy Bush wrote:
>> Anyway, I see it as pretty much moot, since many major players (Comcas=
t,
>> Google, etc) are in the midst of major IPv6 deployments as we speak.=20
>> Eventually you will have to jump on the bandwagon too. :-)
>> =20
> clue0: the isp for which i work deployed ipv6 in the '90s. we were the=
> world's first commercial ipv6 isp deployment.
> =20
<golf clap>
> clue1: not only can i do the math, but i can remember history
> =20
Heh. I didn't really doubt that you understood the math. Was just
being a bit snarky. :p (this whole thread is sort of flame bait anyway
hehe).
Anyway, with just 2000::/3 alone, there's about 500 million /32s.=20
According to the CIDR report, there's ~34,000 ASs in BGP right now.=20
Lets double that "for future growth" just for fun. If we do that, it
means if we divided those /32s evenly among all of those ASes, each
would get about 7800 of them. Each one contains 64Ki /48s. And again,
that's just one /3 of the entire v6 space (yeah I know they won't be
divided evenly ... different sizes orgs, regional assignments, etc, etc,
etc).
Anyway, I think the addy space will tide us over for quite a while, even
if it's "not enough" as your last post seemed to indicate. Hey, and if
we ever do run out, we can just NAT! ;) ;) ;)
-Jim
