Sean Reifschneider <jafo-reginalug@tummy.com> writes: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 12:05:24PM -0500, Vincent L. Mulhollon wrote: > >Remember, to a crude first approximation, within a power of ten or so, > >there are about as many IPv4 addresses as there are humanoid lifeforms > >on this planet. As of 1998 there are about 10^9 people in Europe and North America alone. One internet-connected appliance per two citizens does not seem unrealistic as a mid-term perspective. Without any sharing of addresses (which adds technical overhead) that would be an eigth of the address space. I don't think anybody asserts that IPv4 will last until 2100. Address shortage does not seem to be a problem for some years to come, though. Routing complexety is a problem today, OTOH. > It doesn't help that the US government has a huge chunk of the address > space allocated to it. They are not the only one. There is DNS data (A and PTR records) for 7045642 hostnames of the form h%d-%d-%d-%d.outland.lucent.com. That is more than the population of smaller countries. Back to topic: what Debian can do is to have as many IPv6-aware tools available out of the box as possible. So when one's upstream offers it Debian won't be the stumbling block. -- Robbe
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