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Re: /8 end user assignment?
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 10:44:54 +0200
On 5-aug-2005, at 0:09, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
2. We know cable companies, dsl providers and mobile companies can use this many IPs, but they generally seem to make use of NAT and IPv6. If everyone in this category who could justify a /8 applied and received them we might be in real trouble with our IPv4 space.
Actually, I think it'd be GOOD if the v4 space got very scarce veryfast... it'd make people stop putzing around with v6 amd mae it production for real. (perhaps even someone would think about how to multihome in v6?in a workable manner)
The first six months of this year nearly 100 million addresses were given out by the RIRs. (How many were returned I don't know.)
With some 1100 - 1200 million lying around the IANA storage facility unused, this gives us some 5 years before we run out of _unused_ address space, if nothing changes. Even if there is significant growth, it's virtually impossible for those billion+ addresses to run out within 3 years.
Five years is a long time, you can upgrade a lot of load balancers in such a period. You can upgrade a good number in three years, too.
Current thread:
- Re: /8 end user assignment?, (continued)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? Florian Weimer (Aug 05)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 06)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? Randy Bush (Aug 06)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 06)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? Joel Jaeggli (Aug 05)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? Andy Davidson (Aug 05)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 06)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? Daniel Golding (Aug 05)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 06)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 04)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 05)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? Steven M. Bellovin (Aug 05)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? William Warren (Aug 06)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? William Warren (Aug 07)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 07)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? Daniel Golding (Aug 08)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 08)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? Joel Jaeggli (Aug 04)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? David Conrad (Aug 05)
- Re: /8 end user assignment? Randy Bush (Aug 05)