On Sunday, September 18, 2011 09:27:43 PM Usman Latif wrote:
This may be a correct assumption so long as the current
architectures of subnets residing behind a physical
router device continue to hold - because the real surge
would occur if virtualized hosts themselves become
router devices and further require subnets to reside
behind them.
If the above becomes the case, we could have problems...
And that's the point - there's just no way of knowing what
will happen in the future (whether during our lifetime, or
not) that may accelerate the use of v6 address space, as our
projections are based on current trends today, which may not
be applicable beyond us.
Of course, this is on the assumption that this protocol is
expected to outlive many of us, something our children's
children's children will be happy that we thought about. If
we're, however, looking at a shorter time scale, all bets
are off. But I digress :-)...
Mark.