billions of new routable addresses are going to be added to the
existing
routing system.
That's not a useful measure--what matters is the number of prefixes, not
the number of addresses. If everyone on the planet magically converted
from IPv4 to IPv6, and kept the same topology, the number of prefixes
would not increase.
...modulo multihoming...
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