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Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon () jmaimon com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 18:15:44 -0500
William Herrin wrote:
It's not a problem, exactly, but it cuts the gain vs. IPv4 from ~29 orders of magnitude to just 9 orders of magnitude. Your link which needed at most 2 bits of IPv4 address space now consumes 64 bits of IPv6 address space. Then we do /48s from which the /64s are assigned and we lose another 3 or so orders of magnitude... Sparsely allocate those /48s for another order of magnitude. From sparsely allocated ISP blocks for another order of magnitude. It slips away faster than you might think. Regards, Bill Herrin
When you consider that the default starting ISP size is /32, and that is sufficient to address something less than 64k subscribers, purist style, in broadest possible theoretical terms the following emerges.
a) ipv6 has one ISP per every 1.x human (enough?), IPv4 has one IP per every 1.x human (not enough)
b) IPv4 has 64k ISP's capable of servicing 64k customers, IPv6 has 64k multiples of that.
So that will be one paradigm shift and one order of magnitude (exponentially speaking) for your total.
There is plenty more to wonder about, for example, will the rest of the unicast space get Class E'd?
Joe
Current thread:
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too, (continued)
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too Mel Beckman (Dec 20)
- RE: Waste will kill ipv6 too Keith Medcalf (Dec 20)
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too Mark Andrews (Dec 20)
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too William Herrin (Dec 20)
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too Mark Andrews (Dec 20)
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too Jason Iannone (Dec 21)
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too ops . lists (Dec 21)
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too Christopher Morrow (Dec 21)
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too Jima (Dec 22)
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too Jimmy Hess (Dec 21)
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too Joe Maimon (Dec 20)
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too valdis . kletnieks (Dec 20)
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too George Metz (Dec 20)
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too Joe Maimon (Dec 20)
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too Harald Koch (Dec 20)
- RE: Waste will kill ipv6 too Aaron Gould (Dec 20)
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too Saku Ytti (Dec 20)
- RE: Waste will kill ipv6 too Aaron Gould (Dec 21)
- RE: Waste will kill ipv6 too Aaron Gould (Dec 20)
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too Lee Howard (Dec 20)
- Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too Jens Link (Dec 20)