Subnetting Practices

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 07:32:32AM -0700, Roland Dobbins wrote:
> I'm concerned about it happening within the next 50-75 years, if  
> spimes exponentiate the way I think they will.

I can't really follow you here.  For things to attach to "The Internet",
you need network attachment points (= subnets) - and those are fairly 
obviously limited in number.

Even if you have a million smart dust particles flowing around your
house - how many subnets are you going to allocate to them?

So I see this argument actually emphasizing the "make the host part
of the network LARGE!!" argument - which is what the decision for /64s 
did.

Gert Doering
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