On Thu, 29 May 2003, Joe Abley wrote:
That leaves 16 /8s reserved for multicast, and another 204 which are not currently assigned to any RIR (they're currently designated experimental, reserved, etc). So, only 14% of the available IPv4 address space had been assigned to RIRs at the time of that presentation.
Which is fairly meaningless since half those 202 are instead delegated to Large Organisations, Various Registries etc. http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space As has been stated things start getting hairly in about 10 years or so. Less if IP enabled Cellphones start taking off, consider what is going to happen in 5 years time if half the worlds population has an always on ip-enabled cellphone and wants to run p2p apps talking to N arbitary other hosts around the world. As the cost of putting a full IP stack and connection drops to only a couple of dollars or less all sorts of random things will start having them. And before you say NAT remember that the power company will want to directly access your meter and hotwater cylinder, your car company the car, your whiteware company the fridge etc. Did I mention the games console? When stuff like that comes along we really want them to be deployed on a nice ipv6 internet rather than have to suddenly switch cause demand increases by a factor of 10 overnight. -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz Ihug Ltd, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz