[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria

>> 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