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Re: IPv6 deployment excuses


From: Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 09:49:53 -0700


On Mon 2016-Jul-04 12:42:33 -0400, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Matt Hoppes <
mattlists () rivervalleyinternet net> wrote:

Except the lady will eventually downsize. The college student will want
more and lease the space.

Also, the 49,000 Sq ft office space that has been leased for 10 years and
never occupied will be taken back and released to someone who will actually
develop it.


and as has been covered numerous times here and other places the lifetime
of a /8 in the global pool is ~1month.

so.. you bought essentially nothing. The math that matters is: 7b people -
3b ips == 4b lost connections.

...and even that is generous as it assumes 1 device per person and strictly peer-to-peer traffic with no servers or even any addresses on routers and their interfaces.

Reference to NAT as a saviour in 3...2...1...

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