This is some sort of urban legend. If a routeable prefix was given to
every human, using a predicted world population of 11 billion, we would
consume about 0.004% of the total IPv6 address space.
....that's what they said about never needing more than 640kb of memory in a
computer......
we'll never need more than that!
] As soon as some resource becomes available, something is developed that
] uses as much of that resource as possible - this is a fact of life and is
] natural progression, it's how we develop new technology. Progression in
] any area is a Good Thing, I would be worried if we didn't use IPv6 to it's
] full extent.
Only people who are both innumerate and ignorant of the contexts and
meanings of both the 640K and 5 computers/world remarks say such things.
For example, in its context, the 640K remark was as reasonable as the
partitioning of the phsical and virtual address spacees of the computers
that were used to compose the recent remarks.
Never mind that anyone who bothered to read what Brian wrote knows that
he didn't say that the IPv6 space could never be used up, such as by giving
everyone a ridiculous number of prefixes. Nothing is foolproof.
Now that we've had our semi-annual dose of address space silliness and
routing foolishness, could we please go back to the business of the IETF,
which is apparently spam mixed with endless repetitions of unreadable
tracts somehow related to Nazis and San Francisco Bay Area museums?
Vernon Schryver vjs(_at_)rhyolite(_dot_)com