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Re: minimum IPv6 announcement size

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Tue Oct 1 16:43:04 2013

Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 13:42:51 -0700
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org



--- owen@delong.com wrote:
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
 
we will have plenty of address space to number the internet 
for many many years. 
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You can't know the future and what addressing requirements
it'll bring:

"I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt 
like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, 
a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last 
a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 
6 years before people started to see that as a real problem."


scott


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