Nanites, window blinds, and soda cans, I can believe. Molecules, I tend to doubt. I think we will see larger network segments, but I think we will also see greater separation of networks into segments along various administrative and/or automatic aggregation boundaries. The virtual topologies you describe will likely also have related prefix consequences. Owen On Oct 9, 2014, at 7:39 AM, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> wrote:
On Oct 9, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
Also, claiming that 90% will never have more than 2 or 3 subnets simply displays a complete lack of imagination.
On the contrary, I believe that the increase in the potential address pool size will lead to much flatter, less hierarchical networks - while at the same time leading to most nodes being highly multi-homed into various virtual topologies, thereby leading to significant increases of addresses per node.
A 'node' being things like molecules, nanites, window blinds, soda cans, etc.
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