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Those are some pretty big assumptions. But, even if only 64 bits were used, that's still enough space for every human on earth to have 2.75 billion IPv6 address

Those are some pretty big assumptions. But, even if only 64 bits were used, that's still enough space for every human on earth to have 2.75 billion IPv6 addresses.

acqq 16y ago
Only if there are no distribution rules in upper 64 bits, which is not going to happen. That's why I'd like to know the planned allocation process. Do you know anything about it? I posted my question to get exactly that info.
- magamiako 16y ago
  As the wikipedia article states, and as the IANA assignments are coming through--you, as your personal self, gets a /48 block. Or rather, your "premises" gets a /48 block. If you're a small business owner with 10 computers, you get a /48 block. If you're a home user, you get a /48 block. If you're a large enterprise business, you get a /48 block. It's a rather significant waste of addressing and I really wish they had moved it over a few blocks, but that's the current plan. That said, you have to figure. Right now, for internet alone, we're using only 1/8th the space of the IPv6 address space. The plans are 2000::/3. Which essentially means 2000:: through 3FFF::. that's a rather ridiculous amount of hosts. It comes out to 2^125 hosts. 4.25352959 × 10^37 hosts on the internet. It's unfathomably large. So it doesn't really matter if huge chunks are wasted. You won't ever really use all of it anyway. I agree that the IPv6 space is ridiculously large, but that's kind of the point. They realized that the internet infrastructure will only continue to grow--and they want to, at all costs, avoid any problem with hitting the limit of addressing at any point in the future. The larger it grows, the more of a problem it will be to change it later on.
- wmf 16y ago
  https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#six https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#six
- koenigdavidmj 16y ago
  Right now they are only allocating out of one /8, so if they are being too broad in their allocation policies now, then they can start cleaning up the mess when the need the next /8.

Those are some pretty big assumptions. But, even if only 64 bits were used, that's still enough space for every human on earth to have 2.75 billion IPv6 addresses.

acqq 16y ago

Only if there are no distribution rules in upper 64 bits, which is not going to happen. That's why I'd like to know the planned allocation process. Do you know anything about it? I posted my question to get exactly that info.

magamiako 16y ago
As the wikipedia article states, and as the IANA assignments are coming through--you, as your personal self, gets a /48 block. Or rather, your "premises" gets a /48 block. If you're a small business owner with 10 computers, you get a /48 block. If you're a home user, you get a /48 block. If you're a large enterprise business, you get a /48 block. It's a rather significant waste of addressing and I really wish they had moved it over a few blocks, but that's the current plan. That said, you have to figure. Right now, for internet alone, we're using only 1/8th the space of the IPv6 address space. The plans are 2000::/3. Which essentially means 2000:: through 3FFF::. that's a rather ridiculous amount of hosts. It comes out to 2^125 hosts. 4.25352959 × 10^37 hosts on the internet. It's unfathomably large. So it doesn't really matter if huge chunks are wasted. You won't ever really use all of it anyway. I agree that the IPv6 space is ridiculously large, but that's kind of the point. They realized that the internet infrastructure will only continue to grow--and they want to, at all costs, avoid any problem with hitting the limit of addressing at any point in the future. The larger it grows, the more of a problem it will be to change it later on.
wmf 16y ago
https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#six https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#six
koenigdavidmj 16y ago
Right now they are only allocating out of one /8, so if they are being too broad in their allocation policies now, then they can start cleaning up the mess when the need the next /8.