On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 01:00:44AM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
> 2.7 1.2 1.6 1.2 2.1 2.4 1.9 2.4 3.4 4.5
>
> (The numbers represent the number of addresses used up in that year
> as a percentage of the 3.7 billion total usable IPv4 addresses.)
>
> Those years where the growth was smaller than the year before never
> happened twice or more in a row.
>
> This basically means that unless things take a radical turn, the long-
> term trend is accelerating growth so that remaining 40% will be gone
> in less than 9 years. Probably something like 7, as Geoff Huston
> predicts.
>
This is much less time than I have seen in previous reports. If
this is accurate and consistent there is a greater problem than I had
previously thought.
If that is indeed the case then the "enhanced nat" road for ipv6
begins to make much more sense, even in the nearer term.
Austin
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