On Oct 19, 2010, at 4:25 AM, Ben Butler wrote: > Hi, > > Another way of looking at it would be what would the world population need to > be in order to exhaust all of the space v6 based on /48s /56s or /64s per > head / household - and is this population number ever going to happen in what > time conceivable time frame. > > Another interesting calculation would be to divide the land mass area by that > population figure - let alone the habital area. > > 2 to 48 = 281,474,976,710,658 or 280K Billion separate /48s assignments. > > (Current world population 6.7 Billion forecast 14 Billion in 2100) > > World Landmass (Total All Areas): 148.94 million sq km > > So Each Person at the point of IPv6 exhaustion will have 0.53 sq meters to > stand on while using all their IPv6 devices. > > I think it is safe to say that the world will be facing other more > significant problems long long long before we get anywhere near having to > worry about running out of IPv6 space because we are assigning each > individual a /48. > This does, of course, assume that the population remains earthbound beyond 2100.
I think that is not entirely likely. > There are surely technical benefits from a routing perspective if all the end > user assignments are the same size - therefore should the technical > considerations here not override any argument about conservation of space > seeing as the above hopefully proves the fallacy of needing to conserve IPv6 > address space???? > Yes... The technical considerations should override silly efforts to keep more than 99.99% of all IPv6 space in reserve for some unprojected need since we have real projected needs for the 0.001% now. Owen > Ben > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert E. Seastrom [mailto:r...@seastrom.com] > Sent: 19 October 2010 11:53 > To: George Bonser > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption > > > "George Bonser" <gbon...@seven.com> writes: > >>> You are to be commended for your leadership in conserving space. Our >>> children will surely be grateful that thanks to your efforts they have >>> 99.99999% of IPv6 space left to work with rather than the paltry >>> 99.9975% that might have been their inheritance were it not for your >>> efforts. Bravo! >> >> I have a feeling that IP addresses will now be used in ways that people >> have not envisioned them being used before. Given a surplus of any >> resource, people find creative ways of using it. > > Which just reinforces the argument that we ought to give people /48s > rather than /56es, /60s, or /64s even though those with a failure of > imagination may not be able to figure out a reason anyone would need > that much space. > > -r > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > BODY { MARGIN: 0px}.footerdark { LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, > Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #001a35; FONT-SIZE: 9px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; > TEXT-DECORATION: none}.blackcopy { LINE-HEIGHT: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, > Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; > TEXT-DECORATION: none}.bluecopy { LINE-HEIGHT: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, > Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #29aae2; FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; > TEXT-DECORATION: none}.address { LINE-HEIGHT: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, > Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10px; TEXT-DECORATION: > none}.footerlight { LINE-HEIGHT: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, > sans-serif; COLOR: #667891; FONT-SIZE: 9px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; > TEXT-DECORATION: none}.pinkcopy { LINE-HEIGHT: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, > Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #ed174d; FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; > TEXT-DECORATION: none} > Ben Butler > Director Tel: 0333 666 3332 > Fax: 0333 666 3331 > C2 Business Networking Ltd > The Paddock, London Road, Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 7JL > http://www.c2internet.net/ > > Part of the Atlas Business Group of Companies plc > Registered in England: 07102986 Registered Address: Datum House, Electra Way, > Crewe CW1 6ZF Vat Registration No: 712 9503 48 > This message is confidential and intended for the use only of the person to > whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient you are strictly > prohibited from reading, disseminating, copying, printing, re-transmitting or > using this message or its contents in any way. Opinions, conclusions and > other information expressed in this message are not given or authorised by > the Company unless otherwise indicated by an authorised representative > independent of this message. The Company does not accept liability for any > data corruption, interception or amendment to any e-mail or the consequences > thereof.Emails addressed to individuals may not necessarily be read by that > person unless they are in the office.Calls to and from any of the Atlas > Business Group of Companies may be recorded for the purposes of training, > monitoring of quality and customer services. > > >
