IPv6 deployment excuses

Mon Jul 4 16:49:53 UTC 2016

On Mon 2016-Jul-04 12:42:33 -0400, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Matt Hoppes <
>mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote:
>
>> Except the lady will eventually downsize. The college student will want
>> more and lease the space.
>>
>> Also, the 49,000 Sq ft office space that has been leased for 10 years and
>> never occupied will be taken back and released to someone who will actually
>> develop it.
>>
>
>and as has been covered numerous times here and other places the lifetime
>of a /8 in the global pool is ~1month.
>
>so.. you bought essentially nothing. The math that matters is: 7b people -
>3b ips == 4b lost connections.

...and even that is generous as it assumes 1 device per person and strictly 
peer-to-peer traffic with no servers or even any addresses on routers and 
their interfaces.

Reference to NAT as a saviour in 3...2...1...

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