[anti-abuse-wg] Re: Interaction between the RIPE and anti-abuse communities, was Draft Anti-Abuse WG Minutes ? RIPE 61
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Suresh Ramasubramanian
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Wed Feb 2 16:23:41 CET 2011
2^128 IP addresses should be enough for anybody, eh? On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 06:54:40PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote: >> > Let me give you a hint: IPv4 will run out this year. So what ever you >> > do, you better get prepared for that. >> >> Right. And future generations wont thank us if the same lackadaisical >> policy enforcement means large swathes of v6 space get glommed on, and >> we repeat this conversation a couple of decades later. > > Please apply basic math 101 here. There's 4 billion times the amount > of *networks* in IPv6 than the amount of single IP addresses in IPv4. > > Normal LIRs in IPv6 get a /32 - so to "glomm" (whatever that means) > "large swathes", to have a significant impact on the 4 billion /32s > out there (maybe only 500 million if you only count FP001), they will > have to come back *fairly* often for new /32s. > > Size does matter. > > Gert Doering > -- > did you enable IPv6 on something today...? > > SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard > Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann > D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) > Tel: +49 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279 > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)
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