[143470] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 end user addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (james machado)
Wed Aug 10 20:45:38 2011
In-Reply-To: <CAPWAtbJ0kgzAbCjUGvBCE3_njawMDu3AZqLi3JQV4ZP6ivX5KA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:45:00 -0700
From: james machado <hvgeekwtrvl@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> It isn't hard to do some arithmetic and guess that if every household
> in the world had IPv6 connectivity from a relatively low-density
> service like the above example, we would still only burn through about
> 3% of the IPv6 address space on end-users (nothing said about server
> farms, etc. here) but what does bother me is that the typical end-user
> today has one, single IP address; and now we will be issuing them 2^16
> subnets; yet it is not too hard to imagine a future where the global
> IPv6 address pool becomes constrained due to service-provider
> inefficiency.
>
what is the life expectancy of IPv6? It won't live forever and we
can't reasonably expect it too. I understand we don't want run out of
addresses in the next 10-40 years but what about 100? 200? 300?
We will run out and our decedents will go through re-numbering again.
The question becomes what is the life expectancy of IPv6 and does the
allocation plan make a reasonable attempt to run out of addresses
around the end of the expected life of IPv6.
> Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
> Sr Network Operator=A0 /=A0 Innovative Network Concepts
>
>
james
