Re: [v6ops] A good "state of the art" overview of IPv6 Transition from FCC

Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com> Tue, 04 January 2011 00:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] A good "state of the art" overview of IPv6 Transition from FCC
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On 04/01/2011 00:35, Randy Bush wrote :
> i wish i could remember the quote and attribution that no fixed address
> size has ever been enough.
>

So Internet addressing is a gas: it will diffuse readily, spreading
apart in order to uniformly fill the space of any container. :-)

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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html