On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Tim Chown wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:15:04PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 20:06:26 +0100, "Anthony G. Atkielski" <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > > > > 33 bits > > > > 8,589,934,592 times as many addresses. At current burn rates, it will take > > us some 20 years to go through the *current* free IPv4 space. And nobody's > > proposed any killer app that will take millions of times more address > > space. > > The "at current burn rate" assumption is far from safe though... As is the concept of IP address space as a commodity item. > > Tim > > sleekfreak pirate broadcast world tour 2002-3 live from the pirate hideout http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/