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.
>
> <aol>
>
> 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
