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

[Randy Bush <[e-mail]>]

> 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.

randy