RE: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

[Steven Cotton]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Rakers, Jason wrote:

>       This is some sort of urban legend. If a routeable prefix was
> given to every human, using a predicted world population of 11
> billion, we would consume about 0.004% of the total IPv6 address
> space.
> 
> ....that's what they said about never needing more than 640kb of memory in a
> computer......
> we'll never need more than that!

As soon as some resource becomes available, something is developed that
uses as much of that resource as possible - this is a fact of life and is
natural progression, it's how we develop new technology. Progression in
any area is a Good Thing, I would be worried if we didn't use IPv6 to it's
full extent.

-- 
steven