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Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > one" and then it levels off again. The question is: where on the S are we > now? There is something to be said for high (close to leveling off) > because pretty much anyone who wants/needs IP in North America and Europe > has it, but maybe we're still quite low, since lots of stuff that could > benefit from IP connectivity is still standalone. (And then there's the > rest of the world, of course.) > I think we'll have a "double S". Almost all residential broadband providers here (.fi) have changed their policy from allocating 10/8 addresses and NATting the tens of thousands of subscribers to the outside to automatically allocating public IP's with DHCP. Total consumption in order of a few hundred thousand addresses for our small country alone. > The problem is not so much address space (you can run a fortune 500 > company behind a single address with NAT) but routing. This is still a big > problem in IPv6 (as we're hoping to avoid the mess that is IPv4), but I > think we're getting closer to a solution. > Private address space is a pain if you have to redo company boundaries. Merging two or three businesses who all used the first subnets of 10/8 takes a lot of unneccessary extra hardware. Pete
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