Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion

Thu Jun 19 16:21:12 UTC 2014

On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Ricky Beam wrote:

> Can we stop with the lame "every person, and their dog!" numbering plans. The 
> same MISTAKE has been repeated so many times in recent history you'd think 
> people would know better. It's the exact same wrong-think that was applied to 
> the 32bit IPv4 addressing in an era where there were a few dozen computers 
> worldwide. (also that IPv4 was an "experiment" that was never imagined to be 
> this big.)

How much IPv6 space would you propose an ISP provisions for each of its 
residential users?

jms