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Rod wrote:
> laurent@faked.mblelop.com (Laurent) wrote...
>>
>> Now that the ipv4 address shortage myth has been
>> debunked...
>
> What do you mean, debunked?  Could you point me to an
> article, please?

Here's some reading

http://www.ripe.net/rs/ipv4-ncc-20031030.html

http://www.potaroo.net/ispcolumn/2003-07-v4-address-lifetime/ale.html

The analysis basically says we could reach a shortage of address space
somewhere in 25 years if XYZ factors remains. Of course it all may change,
we *might* run out faster, or maybe slower.

One thing to consider is the apparent burden on the routing tables that now
must carry so many routing entries that adding up to that (right now) is
already a huge problem and has been considered to be one of the major
problems of IPv4 even before address space exhaustion. It might even be the
critical reason to force new address allotation to be in IPv6 space
instead.

Allllll speculations! No one knows how the internet will grow. One thing is
for sure, there's no shortage of ips now or anytime soon (soon = internet
years. if it's predicted that a shortage would occur in 25 years, we can
also go back 25 years ago in 1978 and see how the internet ahs grown from
there up to today...)

Sure, i'd love to ping myself at some incredibly impossible to remember
ipv6 address and have the benefit of being easier to route, but i don't
think it's gonna happen.

It might even be that we will circumvent the ipv4 problems with new
approaches to each problem, who knows.

Laurent