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

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Tue, 04 January 2011 00:04 UTC

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>> 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. :-)

and the /32s the rirs are allocating to anything that walks are pretty
big molecules

randy