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RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
From: "TJ" <trejrco () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 21:35:02 -0400
There are about 11 million /56s per person on the planet, we're not about to run out."We have enough addresses for about four billion of these." http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/think/ARPANET/images/imp.gif "We're not about to run out."
And while the two bear some level of similarity, and the comparison makes a great throw-away joke - the difference is in scale. Orders of orders of orders of orders (give or take a few more orders) of magnitude in difference. Taking the usual liberty with the math - 4.3B maximum addresses, compared to 18BB or so network segments (each of which supports as many hosts as we want). Also, the quote was accurate - they were not about to run out. That was more than several years down the road. Not bad for an experiment that escaped the lab ... Accounting for the aforementioned growth in the space, a run life of several centuries for IPv6 should be sufficient. /TJ
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- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses, (continued)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Matthew Moyle-Croft (May 03)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Mikael Abrahamsson (May 03)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Jack Bates (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Tore Anderson (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Mikael Abrahamsson (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Leo Vegoda (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Randy Bush (May 03)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Nathan Ward (May 03)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Ian Mason (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Jay Hennigan (May 04)
- RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses TJ (May 04)
- RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Barry Shein (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Florian Weimer (May 03)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Mikael Abrahamsson (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Nathan Ward (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Mikael Abrahamsson (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Nathan Ward (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Mikael Abrahamsson (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses bmanning (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Leo Bicknell (May 04)
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