"Corzine, Gordie" wrote:
>
> Seriously,
>
> As was pointed out recently, IPV6 will croak much sooner than it needs to
> for the simple reason that we structure routing intelligence into the
> address assignment.
This is some sort of urban legend. If a routeable prefix was given to
every human, using a predicted world population of 11 billion, we would
consume about 0.004% of the total IPv6 address space.
(The actual calculation is 11*10^9/2^48 since there are 48
bits in an IPv6 routing prefix. Or
11,000,000,000 / 281,474,976,710,656 = 0.000039 )
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Brian E Carpenter
Program Director, Internet Standards & Technology, IBM
On assignment for IBM at http://www.iCAIR.org
Board Chairman, Internet Society http://www.isoc.org
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