30 Jan
2010
30 Jan
'10
1:54 a.m.
Daniel Senie wrote:
On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Joe Maimon wrote:
For me, the entire debate boils down to this question.
What should the objective be, decades or centuries?
If centuries, how many planets and moons will the address space cover? (If we as a species manages to spread beyond this world before we destroy it). Will separate /3's, or subdivisions of subsequent /3's, be the best approach to deploying a large-scale IPv6 network on Mars? (and yes, a bit of work would be required to make the round-trip times fall within TCP's windows).
If The useful life of ipv6 is as long as ipv4 we've been pretty successful. It's is (or seems that way to me) likely that pressures other than address exhaustion will consign it to the historybooks.