[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria
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Randy Bush
randy at psg.com
Mon Apr 4 21:17:04 CEST 2005
>> There are bound to be mistakes, like you say. However, one of the major >> mistakes with v4 (imho) was the initial handing out of large amounts of >> address space to people who had no use for that many addresses. We're not >> faced with the quite same problems of address space exhaustion with v6, >> but I see absolutely no reason to repeat the same errors over and over by >> just wasting the address resources. >> I'd rather see large routing tables rather than in 10 years time find we're >> running out of v6 space. > Well, we will also see routers beeing capable to route more than > 150K prefixes. We can even see them today. > > And there are really PC's with more than 640K of RAM ;-) > > At these old days when these 64MB routers were designed, > RAM chips had 4 to 16 MBits of RAM. Today we are talking > about min. 256MBit SDRAM dies, smaller SDRAM's will have > their "call for last order" very soon now. and we once thought 32 bits of address should be enough for ever randy
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