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Re: ITU-T Dubai Meeting

2012-08-05 22:31:03

On Aug 5, 2012, at 7:34 AM, Randy Bush wrote:

In other words: I expect that it will be not more than 20 years from
now that we will hear cries of "Why were we so wasteful with IPv6
addresses in the beginning?" This is why I disagree with Phillip
Hallam-Baker's opinion.

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whatever the number of address bits, if it is fixed, we always run out.
memory addressing has been a cliff many times.  ip addressing.  ...

Yup.  To quote Fred Brooks on memory address space: "Every successful
computer architecture eventually runs out of address space" -- and I heard
him say that in 1973.


                --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb





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