[arin-ppml] Portable address space vs. IPv6 auto-numbering

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard, W. Lee [mailto:Lee.Howard at stanleyassociates.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:33 PM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: PPML
> Subject: RE: [arin-ppml] Portable address space vs. IPv6 
> auto-numbering
> 
> 
> I usually let these irrelevant analogies go by, but this 
> one's too much.
> 

Hey if you can't have any fun at all what's the point of posting? 

> > > 
> > > while i am not a member of RRG, if the question is drawn as
> > > clearly as that, my position would be, forget about IPv4.  
> > > the internet will have many more than 2^32 devices connected 
> > > to it simultaneously within our lifetimes, and i think we 
> > > should preserve the option of not using NAT in future 
> > > generations. therefore IPv4's growth has a glass ceiling 
> > > formed by its address size, and any effort that's put into 
> > > growing its routing table has a fixed return.
> > 
> > Standard road lane width on a modern US highway is 
> determined by the 
> > width of the butts of 2 horses.  This dates back oh, a 
> couple thousand 
> > years.
> 
> Roman roads were narrower (8') than modern highway lanes 
> (12'). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_road
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_standards
> 
> Even if they were essentially the same, the width was set to 
> meet the requirement to allow passage of a vehicle that allows 
> two passengers to sit side by side.
>  

Jokes about airplane manufacturers, the comparative width of
horse and people butts, and increase in obesity
in the US are very hard to let pass by, here, Lee....

> > Is standard auto and road width optimal?  I don't know.  I do know, 
> > though, that a hell of a lot of people have died in SUV rollover 
> > crashes that would have not happened if the width of their vehicle 
> > was, say, the width of 3 butts of horses.
> 
> Only if they were not proportionately higher.  
>

Height is determined largely by the hight of a person from
midsection to head, there's no reason to believe that your
average SUV would be any higher if the road width was made
wider.  The military dictated a wider width for the HumVee
when it comissioned them because even the bull-necks in
the military can see that blindly following a standard
set by measuring people's or horse's asses was not
an optimal standard.

IPv4 is the Internet's horse's ass standard, here...

Ted