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Re: Re[4]: national security

2003-11-29 15:30:58
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:15:04PM -0500, 
Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 20:06:26 +0100, "Anthony G. Atkielski" 
<anthony(_at_)atkielski(_dot_)com>  said:

33 bits

8,589,934,592 times as many addresses.  At current burn rates, it will take
us some 20 years to go through the *current* free IPv4 space.  And nobody's
proposed any killer app that will take millions of times more address
space.

The "at current burn rate" assumption is far from safe though...

Tim