On Jan 20, 2010, at 6:28, Bruce Richardson wrote: >> IPv6 offers much much larger ranges and much simpler renumbering schemes. >> The old mistakes are undone: enough ways to make new mistakes. > > "The demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the > resource.", to quote the general application of Parkinson's Law. It may > seem that IPV6 has a huge range to give out, but that is only going to > encourage people to produce solutions where every light switch and light > bulb in the world (and eventually every cell-maintaining nanobot in > every human body) receives its own IPV6 address. Once the conversion to > IPV6 is passed, the new address space will be consumed at a much faster > rate than the old one.
A standard end-user allocation is, currently, as many IPs as the full IPv4 address space. The plan is to do it that way for the first 1/64th of the address space or something like that and see how that goes. - ask
