[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2024-8: Restrict the Largest Initial IPv6 Allocation to /20

[Jay Hennigan]

On 6/25/24 14:15, Scott Leibrand wrote:
> Why is this policy needed if "only a single IPv6 allocation exceeds a 
> /20 in size"?
> 
> If we're about 10 years into serious use of IPv6, and have used one /16, 
> then we have about 80,000 years before this becomes an urgent issue for 
> ARIN, and 650,000 years before we'll run out. Yes, those extrapolations 
> are dumb, but so is arguing over how many millennia of runway we have.

Meanwhile, in the 1970s: "You've got to be kidding! The sun will run out 
of hydrogen long before we will ever come close to having a need for 
four billion of these."

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