Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

[Steve Deering]

At 8:49 AM +0200 8/4/00, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>Not relevant.  IPv6 will be exhausted by overly-generous allocation of
>address space, just like IPv4.  I've already explained in the past why this
>must be so.  In part, it comes from the subjective impression that any new
>address space is "more than we'll ever need" and the tendency to
>overallocate in consequence, until it's too late; this is probably the most
>common engineering mistake in IT history.  Another reason why IPv6 is not
>nearly as large as it appears to be is that IP addresses are closely linked
>to routing, instead of being randomly assigned; and this routing imposes
>severe restrictions on how the address space can be used.  Both issues are
>routinely and completely overlooked,...

They have not been overlooked by those who have been working on IPv6
address allocation policy.

Steve