[170180] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: misunderstanding scale (was: Ipv4 end, its fake.)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Mon Mar 24 21:41:42 2014
Date: 24 Mar 2014 20:47:25 -0400
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <C6D3DCDA-F40B-4EFB-AD5D-4EDA1AD947B1@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> How long, exactly, do you expect 3.2 billion unicast addresses to provide
> enough addressing for 6.8+ billion people?
Oh, I'd say a decade. Like I said, I have IPv6 on my server and my home
broadband, which mostly works, with the emphasis on the mostly.
>> We've just barely started to move from the era of free IPv4 to the one
>> where you have to buy it, and from everyhing I see, there is vast
>> amounts of space that will be available once people realize they can
>> get real money for it. The prices cited a couple of messages back
>> seem to be in the ballpark. It will be a long time before the price
>> of v4 rises high enough to make it worth the risk of going v6 only.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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