All I'm saying is, for the time being, catastrophic predictions that we're making the same mistakes as with IPv4 are a little dramatic and possibly premature. I agree with you that if every human gets a /32 we won't get very far, but for the moment, we still theoretically have about 13'000 IP addresses available for each kilogram of matter on Earth.
Until we create matter out of nothing, I still think we're on the safe side. I don't doubt you disagree, and I'm ok with it :-)
Le 14 nov. 2010 à 12:38, Eugen Leitl a écrit :
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:27:06AM +0100, Romain Riviere wrote:
>
>> Ok, so let's allocate a couple /32 for all these machines
>> and be done with it. That's a little under 8 × 10^28 per /32 :-)
>
> How does your scaling work if some 10 cubic microns want
> an IPv6 address? While you've been throwing around those
> /48 at anyone who wanted one, for decades?
>
> According to
> http://weblog.chrisgrundemann.com/index.php/2009/how-much-ipv6-is-there/
> the IPv6 has *effectively* only 16*10^6 to 17*10^9
> more space than IPv4, using today's assumptions.
>
> Of course today's assumptions won't hold.
>
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