[24210] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: updated IP Address Utilization Chart
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Flores)
Sat May 29 09:31:21 1999
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From: "Paul Flores" <pflores@wcg.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 08:29:32 -0500
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905290110110.9472-100000@cerise.meganet.net>
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>
> Fine, this study is interesting on some fronts.
Mostly interesting in that it predicts the future of ANY addressing scheme
we choose to deploy.
> Though,
> "actively used
> address space" is the key. I'd say this study is largely
> irrelevant, as
> there are few who would argue that previously allocated space which is
> either a) not used, or b) used extremely inefficiently, is the true
> problem facing ipv4.
exactly. This same problem is facing IPv6 as well (although it won't be as
big a problem as soon)
I can hear it now (in 2010) We need to start implementing IPv16 NOW! We are
almost out of address space!
Paul Flores
Williams
