[ipv6-wg] 96 more bits... time for some magic after all?

Hi Roger,

Roger Jørgensen wrote:

[...]

> > Sorry, but I disagree on that.  A /56 is fine for today's
requirements,
> > but if this hype about the "Internet of Things" really takes off and
you
> > want to put things into different subnets, a /56 may occasionally be
a
> > problem even for consumer households.  Not today, but think anything
> > from ten to fourty years.
> 
> We'll have bigger problems, and other problems in 10years time. We
> have probably start to use more than the 2000::/3 space for one thing.
> That might change the game?

If we need to start another /3 in just a decade's time then Internet
growth will have been astronomical. There are currently 506 /12s
available in 2000::/3 and to have allocated them all in a decade would
mean allocating more than four per month. Even at a relatively sparse
allocation density that would still require an Internet significantly
more massive that what we currently have.

Regards,

Leo Vegoda
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