Re: /64 is enough until 2021 for 90% of users (was Re: Another v6 question)

2011-01-30 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:03:41 -0500 Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net wrote: On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Jan 27, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Jan 26, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: I'd like to see IPv4 go away in ~3 years. Any faster

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-30 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:20:01 -0600 Max Pierson nmaxpier...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not missing your point. I'm saying that in IPv6, we've put enough addresses in to allow for things nobody has thought of in 30, 60, 90, even 100 years and then some. As Roland said, Possibly, as long as we

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-28 Thread Per Carlson
Hi Owen. The downside is that it doesn't provide enough bits for certain kinds of auto-topology management that are being considered by CE vendors. I highly recommend /48 instead. I've seen this claim (you need a /48) from your side several times, but never seen any explanation why a /56

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-27 Thread Max Pierson
V4 30 years ago -- expected consumption: ~60 /8s of 256. IPv6 today -- expected consumption: Maybe 15 /12s of 4096. The scales in question are vastly different. I made no such comparison between the two. The scales are vastly different, but I think you're still missing my point. 30 years ago, no

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-27 Thread Jared Mauch
On Jan 26, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: I'd like to see IPv4 go away in ~3 years. Any faster would be too traumatic. I think 6 years is a perfectly reasonable time frame. I think if it takes 11 years it will be because of significant foot-dragging by some key organizations. I'm not

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-27 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 27, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Jan 26, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: I'd like to see IPv4 go away in ~3 years. Any faster would be too traumatic. I think 6 years is a perfectly reasonable time frame. I think if it takes 11 years it will be because of

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-27 Thread Max Pierson
I'm not missing your point. I'm saying that in IPv6, we've put enough addresses in to allow for things nobody has thought of in 30, 60, 90, even 100 years and then some. As Roland said, Possibly, as long as we don't blow through them via exercises in profligacy nobody has heretofore thought of,

/64 is enough until 2021 for 90% of users (was Re: Another v6 question)

2011-01-27 Thread Jared Mauch
On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Jan 27, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Jan 26, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: I'd like to see IPv4 go away in ~3 years. Any faster would be too traumatic. I think 6 years is a perfectly reasonable time frame. I think

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:04:31 PST, Owen DeLong said: On Jan 27, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: The ipv6 zealots talking about anything but a /64 for end-site are talking about a business class service. Even with my static IPs at home, I have no need for more than a single /64 to be

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-27 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Jared Mauch wrote: The ipv6 zealots talking about anything but a /64 for end-site are talking about a business class service. Even with my static IPs at home, I have no need for more than a single /64 to be used in my wildest dreams. I could live with ~256 ips for the

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-27 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net wrote: On Jan 26, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: I expect that in ~3 years, we will see dual-stack and /64's handed out in conjunction with an IPv4 address as common. The ipv6 zealots talking about anything but a /64 for

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-27 Thread Jack Bates
On 1/27/2011 7:03 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: Security and logical division are a few ideas. You might not care to do that now... but in 20 years, when you have 10 smart chip / IP-based home automation enabled devices on your LAN. My helpdesk decided to counter with We'll run out because of

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-27 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 27, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Jared Mauch wrote: The ipv6 zealots talking about anything but a /64 for end-site are talking about a business class service. Even with my static IPs at home, I have no need for more than a single /64 to be

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-26 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 25, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Max Pierson wrote: I think you may still be missing my point... There are way more /48s available than will ever get used. There are way more /32s available than will ever get used. No, I think you're missing my point. Your statements above are of your

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-26 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 26, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Max Pierson wrote: V4 30 years ago -- expected consumption: ~60 /8s of 256. IPv6 today -- expected consumption: Maybe 15 /12s of 4096. The scales in question are vastly different. I made no such comparison between the two. The scales are vastly different, but

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-26 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Jan 27, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: I'm saying that in IPv6, we've put enough addresses in to allow for things nobody has thought of in 30, 60, 90, even 100 years and then some. Possibly, as long as we don't blow through them via exercises in profligacy nobody has heretofore

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-25 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 25, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Max Pierson wrote: Hi List, Sorry to bring up yet ANOTHER v6 question/topic, but this seems to be one that I cannot get a solid answer on (and probably won't and in the event that I do, it will probably change down the road anyways), but here goes. From

RE: Another v6 question

2011-01-25 Thread George Bonser
From: Max Pierson Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 10:20 AM To: nanog group Subject: Another v6 question From the provider perspective, what is the prefix-length that most are accepting to be injected into your tables?? 2 or so years ago, I read where someone stated that they were

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-25 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Max Pierson wrote: From the provider perspective, what is the prefix-length that most are accepting to be injected into your tables?? 2 or so years ago, I read where someone stated that they were told by ATT that they weren't planning on accepting anything smaller than a

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-25 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/25/2011 10:19, Max Pierson wrote: From the provider perspective, what is the prefix-length that most are accepting to be injected into your tables?? 2 or so years ago, I read where someone stated that they were told by ATT that they weren't planning on accepting anything smaller than a

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-25 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 25, 2011, at 12:03 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: Second, as I was crunching a few numbers to get a rough estimate of what a global table would look like in say 3 or 5 years after v4 is exhausted (I understand that it's completely unpredictable to do this, but curiosity

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-25 Thread Max Pierson
wrote: Hi List, Sorry to bring up yet ANOTHER v6 question/topic, but this seems to be one that I cannot get a solid answer on (and probably won't and in the event that I do, it will probably change down the road anyways), but here goes. From the provider perspective, what is the prefix

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-25 Thread Owen DeLong
25, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Jan 25, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Max Pierson wrote: Hi List, Sorry to bring up yet ANOTHER v6 question/topic, but this seems to be one that I cannot get a solid answer on (and probably won't and in the event that I do

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-25 Thread Max Pierson
DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Jan 25, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Max Pierson wrote: Hi List, Sorry to bring up yet ANOTHER v6 question/topic, but this seems to be one that I cannot get a solid answer on (and probably won't and in the event that I do, it will probably change down the road