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

On 1/3/11 3:35 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2010/db1230/DOC-303870A1.pdf
> 
> "The Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) developed in the late 1970s has
> the capacity for about 4 billion unique addresses. It would have been
> hard to imagine in the 1970s that 4 billion addresses were not going to
> be enough. But by the early 1990s, Internet engineers recognized that
> the supply of addresses was relatively limited compared to likely
> demand, and they set to work designing a successor to IPv4. They
> developed a new Internet Protocol, IPv6, with a vastly increased address
> space: 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses."
> 
> it should have added " It would have been hard to imagine in the 1990s
> that 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses were not going to be
> enough."
> 
> i wish i could remember the quote and attribution that no fixed address
> size has ever been enough.

There's ~10^80 atoms in the observable universe...

some constraints are harder than others to work around.

I'm pretty confident that by the time I'm the age you are now that we
will have had to do something else, 1982 was a while ago.

> randy
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