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> We continue to repeat the same mistakes that made people believe we needed v6 in the first place.

The IPv6 designers already thought of that and prepared for that eventuality. Only 1/8 of all available IPv6 addresses (the ones starting with the bits 001) is available for allocation under the current rules. If and when that gets exhausted, there will still be more than 5/8 of all IPv6 addresses available to be allocated under more strict rules. (See https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-address-space/ipv6-add... and https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3513.html#section-4 for more details.)



> Only 1/8 of all available IPv6 addresses (the ones starting with the bits 001) is available for allocation under the current rules.

Yes yes yes, all sorts of really super serious policies were put in place to prevent abuse of IPv4 allocation rules too.


Do current routers deal with other addresses correctly? This reminds me a little of the challenges in reclaiming 240.0.0.0/4 [0].

[0] - https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/class-e-addresses-in-the-rea...




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