Re: controversial paper

From: Bruce Stephens (bruce+usenet_at_cenderis.demon.co.uk)
Date: 09/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:35:15 +0100

Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> writes:

> Bryan Olson writes:

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>> Flat out wrong. IPV6 uses 128-bit addresses, far larger than
>> needed just to issue a billion addresses to everyone in the
>> world.
>
> Famous last words. And archived on USENET, too.

RFC1715 shows why IPv4 ought to be problematic (even fairly
optimistically we might expect a usable address space of 2e8), and why
IPv6 ought to be OK (even pessimistically, we might expect a usable
address space of 8e17). The reasoning doesn't look faulty to me
(though I agree the "7 billions" mistake is slightly worrying).

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