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Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Thu Jun 19 15:13:38 2014

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:21:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <op.xhpr8elptfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Ricky Beam wrote:

> Can we stop with the lame "every person, and their dog!" numbering plans. The 
> same MISTAKE has been repeated so many times in recent history you'd think 
> people would know better. It's the exact same wrong-think that was applied to 
> the 32bit IPv4 addressing in an era where there were a few dozen computers 
> worldwide. (also that IPv4 was an "experiment" that was never imagined to be 
> this big.)

How much IPv6 space would you propose an ISP provisions for each of its 
residential users?

jms

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