22 Dec
2007
22 Dec
'07
11:49 a.m.
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:29:54 +0900 Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
simon, there are a million chances. and we are notoriously bad at predicting any of them more than a year or so out.
In general, you're right. But we have ~60 years of experience teaching us that *every* successful computer architecture runs out of address space. I see no reason to think that today's models for home address space will be the exception (unless, of course, IPv6 is unsuccessful, but in that case it doesn't matter much what we do for allocation policy unless our actions are sufficiently stupid to cause the failure). --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb