At 12:27 AM 06/10/97 -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
Suppose that IP space were not a problem. When IPv6 comes up all around, it certainly won't be then. You can have and waste all the IP space you could imagine, since we'll be numbering every atom in the known universe.
I continue to hear this used as a 'compelling reason' to urge IPv6 migration, when in reality it appears to be nothing more than people trying to do an 'end around' the address allocation policies by thinking that once v6 is deployed, the allocation policies will dissappear. Simply because one increases the available amount of address space does not in any way imply that allocation policies will change significantly. If they did, and the number of routes increased significantly, we would have much larger problems in the global routing system than we would with people whining about not being able to obtain large enough address allocations. - paul