SV: how 200 /48's fails the job [Re: [address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria]
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Michael Hallgren
m.hallgren at free.fr
Thu Apr 7 23:08:06 CEST 2005
> > > While I understand and accept your argument here, whether > we'd ever run out of address space imho has nothing to do > with /48's. How many /32's have we got to play with ( > 536870912 per /3 by my calculations) OK, that's still a big > number. But if we allow everyone who wants to multihome a > /32, there is the possibility that we could run out - not in > the near future that's for sure. > > Many companies are still discovering how/if they can use the > internet. As more and more uses for the 'net are thought up, > companies are going to become more and more reliant on the > 'net to the point where they will/may struggle to function > without it - somewhere around that point, all companies will > need to have a permanent connection and in my mind a > permanent connection means multihoming. > > How many companies are there in this world ? > Thus how many potential multihomers have we got ? - more > than the number of /32's available, I doubt it (I don't think > there are 4 billion companies). > We're a along way off home users multihoming, so perhaps > we'll never run out of /32's. But I for one would not like to > bet on it. Shared reluctancy to bet on it, as a basis of building policy at least. Cheers, mh (as6453) > > Jon > >
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