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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by Aeolun on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @04:08AM (#21646390)
And then we expand to the stars, and suddenly one planet full of people isn't that great. And we'll develop nanomachines that need to be individually addressed, and suddenly our nice and new IPv6 space only lasts us only a hundred years.

These are just silly examples, but the point is that we don't yet know what will happen to make us run out of space.

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Re:The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses by jsjohnst on Friday November 29, 2019 @12:31PM (#21665650)
> only lasts us only a hundred years

Even if that’s true, that’s about 3x longer than IPv4.

A hundred years ago, computers didn’t exist. Can you imagine how well a network address scheme invented back then would work for our needs?

Why do you presume we can do a better job of predicting what the networking needs of a hundred years from now will be?

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