[131007] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Tue Oct 19 06:52:53 2010
To: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:52:40 -0400
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0B14C38E@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
(George Bonser's message of "Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:27:21 -0700")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
"George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com> writes:
>> You are to be commended for your leadership in conserving space. Our
>> children will surely be grateful that thanks to your efforts they have
>> 99.99999% of IPv6 space left to work with rather than the paltry
>> 99.9975% that might have been their inheritance were it not for your
>> efforts. Bravo!
>
> I have a feeling that IP addresses will now be used in ways that people
> have not envisioned them being used before. Given a surplus of any
> resource, people find creative ways of using it.
Which just reinforces the argument that we ought to give people /48s
rather than /56es, /60s, or /64s even though those with a failure of
imagination may not be able to figure out a reason anyone would need
that much space.
-r
