On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:17:41 GMT, Tim Chown <tjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > The "at current burn rate" assumption is far from safe though... Oh? Have any better-than-handwaving reasons to suspect the current allocation rate will change drastically? I don't forsee the cellphone or embedded markets taking much IPv4 address space - both of those areas are already pointing to IPv6. Much of the world isn't online yet, but quite frankly, those areas have severe infrastructure and economic problems to resolve before they start chewing up a lot of address space (yes, China and India have enough warm bodies to burn out the address space - they don't have the monetary units to do so). I'm more than happy to accept any realistic projections that point to a change in the burn rate - if you know of something I've overlooked, please enlighten us....
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