1 Dec
2009
1 Dec
'09
6:06 p.m.
On Dec 1, 2009, at 5:14 AM, Florian Frotzler wrote:
so...we don't need to fear giving out /24 to LIRs, because LIRs are not coffee machines, refrigerators or other things which will get v6 in the future, so we will not run out of address space by handing out /24. I just wanted to contradict the metaphor Jim described.
First, you are making the assumption that the connectivity model used with IPv4 will remain unchanged with IPv6. I am not so confident this will always be the case. Second, there are a bit under 2.1 million /24s in the global unicast IPv6 space. How long would you expect 2.1 /24s to last? Regards, -drc