26 Sep
2013
26 Sep
'13
4:07 p.m.
On Sep 26, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Darren Pilgrim <nanog@bitfreak.org> wrote:
On 9/26/2013 1:52 AM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
sounds just like folks in 1985, talking about IPv4...
The foundation of that, though, was ignorance of address space exhaustion. IPv4's address space was too small for such large thinking.
The first dicussion I could find about ipv4 runnout in email archives is circa 1983
IPv6 is far beyond enough to use such allocation policies.
There are certain tendencies towards profligacy that might prematurely influence the question of ipv6 exhaustion and we should be on guard against them… allocating enough /48s as part of direct assignments is probably not one of them.