--- owen@delong.com wrote: From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> we will have plenty of address space to number the internet for many many years. ---------------------------------------------- You can't know the future and what addressing requirements it'll bring: "I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem." scott