>billions of new routable addresses are going to be added to the existing >routing system.
That's not a useful measure--what matters is the number of prefixes, not the number of addresses. If everyone on the planet magically converted from IPv4 to IPv6, and kept the same topology, the number of prefixes would not increase. ...modulo multihoming... /================================================================\ |John Stracke |Principal Engineer | |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Incentive Systems, Inc. | |http://www.incentivesystems.com|My opinions are my own. | |================================================================| |He wondered if Elli was going to buy that explanation. His taste| |for heavily-armed girlfriends did have its drawbacks. | \================================================================/