On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 01:00:44AM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 > 2.7 1.2 1.6 1.2 2.1 2.4 1.9 2.4 3.4 4.5 > > (The numbers represent the number of addresses used up in that year > as a percentage of the 3.7 billion total usable IPv4 addresses.) > > Those years where the growth was smaller than the year before never > happened twice or more in a row. > > This basically means that unless things take a radical turn, the long- > term trend is accelerating growth so that remaining 40% will be gone > in less than 9 years. Probably something like 7, as Geoff Huston > predicts. > This is much less time than I have seen in previous reports. If this is accurate and consistent there is a greater problem than I had previously thought. If that is indeed the case then the "enhanced nat" road for ipv6 begins to make much more sense, even in the nearer term. Austin _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf