Re: Why IPv6 is a must?

["John Stracke" <jstracke at incentivesystems.com>]

>billions of  new routable addresses  are going to  be added to  the 
existing
>routing system. 

That's not a useful measure--what matters is the number of prefixes, not 
the number of addresses.  If everyone on the planet magically converted 
from IPv4 to IPv6, and kept the same topology, the number of prefixes 
would not increase.

...modulo multihoming...

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