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RE: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

2000-08-11 05:50:02
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Rakers, Jason wrote:

      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.

-- 
steven