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Re: ISP customer assignments
From: Chris Owen <owenc () hubris net>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:20:44 -0500
On Oct 5, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote:
Whenever you declare something to be "inexhasutable" all you do is increase demand. Eventually you reach a point where you realize that there is, in fact, a limit to the inexhaustable resource.
This is where I think there is a major disconnect on IPv6. The size of the pool is just so large that people just can't wrap their heads around it.
2^128 is enough space for every man, woman and child on the planet to have around 4 billion /64s to themselves. Even if we assume everyone might possibly need say 10 /64s per person that still means we are covered until the population hits around 2,600,000,000,000,000,000.
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