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Re: more on IPv6 address space exhaustion

2000-08-15 02:30:02
What a committee with the fellow behind PSI (an
ISP, no less!) on it is proposing is clever: use
the same general principle with a range
of IPv6 addresses.

It isn't really that clever.  For one thing, the standards for any given
category of addresses will vary from one community to another, and so it
will be impossible to reach a consensus on which entities should be included
in or excluded from that category.  Another problem is that the very
categories themselves will vary from one community to another.  Smallville
USA might well endorse a "kids-only" address space, but what about an Arab
country that wants a "Jew-free" address space, or another country that wants
a "men-only" address space?  The number of required addresses spaces might
be infinite, and there would be no universal consensus on the vast majority
of them.