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Re: [RRG] Re: address reclamation

To: Per Heldal <heldal@eml.cc>
Subject: Re: [RRG] Re: address reclamation
From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:36:13 +1200
Cc: RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com>, IRTF Routing RG <rrg@psg.com>
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> I'm aware of those efforts, and they are appreciated. Yet, numbers so
> far are nowhere near anything that can make a real difference. 

With a total of well under 4 billion unicast IPv4 addresses and
a world population estimated as 6,673,801,375* today, I fail to see
why this would affect Internet architectural strategy anyway.
Address reclamation is at best a tactical solution, and at worst
will delay the real solution.

   Brian

* http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html

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References:
- [RRG] Re: address reclamation
  - From: RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com>
- Re: [RRG] Re: address reclamation
  - From: Per Heldal <heldal@eml.cc>

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