On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Tim Chown wrote:
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...
As is the concept of IP address space as a commodity item.
Tim
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