[172500] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Thu Jun 19 19:09:21 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:09:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <517FAD6D-4E88-4CE7-A32E-CCD554FE0613@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Owen DeLong wrote:
> If you read the rest of my post, you would realize that I wasn't arguing
> to give out addresses to every person and their dog, but instead arguing
> that trying to shift bits to the right would be costly and pointless
> because there are more than enough bits on the left site already.
Perhaps we should discuss this in a different way...
Ricky, if you were to design a new protocol today such that you can give
out addresses, at will without having to be conservative with the goal of
minimizing human factor costs, and _guarantee_ that you will not run out
of addresses in the useful life of the protocol, how big would that
address space need to be?
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