how 200 /48's fails the job [Re: [address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 12:11:26 -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
>go to the ipv6 forum or whatever to discuss promoting ipv6.  here,
>we're trying to figure out how to do prudent and responsible
>engineering so that this thing will scale for 50+ years if anyone
>decides to use it.
Aha.

Do I see this right that we have list members here who are
clever enough to *exactly* know what will happen with
network technology in the next 50 years propably because
of some intuition given personally by Him to them ?

And from the discussion it sounds like He told them to
pray that every household should become a RIPE NCC
member and thus IPv6 address space is in great danger.

No math please, no facts, just *believe and pray* :-(

Btw.: I estimate about <<1 Mio. households within the
RIPE NCC region. Even if there is a /32 for each
household, still <1/1000  part of the IPv6 address space
is given up.

And when using advanced routers of today, even a
routing table with 1 Mio. entries would be *possible*.
It would have some economical impact, yes, of course.
But it is *possible*.
Clearly within a 50 years range from now ;-)

But I can tell you for sure that neither my parents nor my
neighbour (pet doc.) will not open an ISP as home
business and thus won't apply for RIPE NCC membership,
thus 999998 table entries will be sufficient with the new
gamma policy proposal.

Best Regards
Oliver



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