[130989] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon Oct 18 21:28:34 2010
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <86aambhw90.fsf@seastrom.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:25:49 -1000
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
RS,
On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> If we were to give a /48 to every human on the face of the planet, we
> would use about .000025 of the total available IPv6 address space.
Sure. I once did the math that suggested that even if you multiplied =
the current IPv4 consumption rate by 1000 and applied that consumption =
rate to IPv6 /48s, the 1/8th of the IPv6 address space used for global =
unicast would last over 100 years.
The problem is that allocation policy depends on who shows up at RIR =
meetings. Marshall has pointed out the (potential) implications of that =
policy with respect to 6rd. My math didn't take 6rd into account. =20
Simply, there is no finite resource that people can't figure out a way =
to waste in an insane fashion. Since IPv6 is a finite resource, I =
personally think it makes sense for folks to be reasonably conservative =
in assignment to customers.
Regards,
-drc
