Re: ITU-T Dubai Meeting

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Sun, 05 August 2012 14:34 UTC

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> In other words: I expect that it will be not more than 20 years from
> now that we will hear cries of "Why were we so wasteful with IPv6
> addresses in the beginning?" This is why I disagree with Phillip
> Hallam-Baker's opinion.

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whatever the number of address bits, if it is fixed, we always run out.
memory addressing has been a cliff many times.  ip addressing.  ...

randy