Scott Leibrand writes: > Well, in the case of IPv6 we're currently playing in a sandbox 1/8 the > size of the available address space. So the lifetime of IPv6 will be 8 times its current age, since the remaining 7/8 will probably be blown just as quickly. > So if what you say is true, and we manage to use up an exponential > resource in linear time, then we can change our approach and try > again with the second 1/8 of the space, without having to go through > the upgrade pain that is the v4-v6 transition again. It will just be a different variation on the same mistake. > I suspect even arrogant engineers can get it right in 8 tries. They haven't gotten it right in the past century, so I'm not optimistic about the future. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf