Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

Tue Oct 19 10:52:40 UTC 2010

"George Bonser" <gbonser at seven.com> writes:

>> You are to be commended for your leadership in conserving space.  Our
>> children will surely be grateful that thanks to your efforts they have
>> 99.99999% of IPv6 space left to work with rather than the paltry
>> 99.9975% that might have been their inheritance were it not for your
>> efforts.  Bravo!
>
> I have a feeling that IP addresses will now be used in ways that people
> have not envisioned them being used before.  Given a surplus of any
> resource, people find creative ways of using it. 

Which just reinforces the argument that we ought to give people /48s
rather than /56es, /60s, or /64s even though those with a failure of
imagination may not be able to figure out a reason anyone would need
that much space.

-r