What is your basis for this opinion? Network operators are already talking about it.
> Too late. IPv4 are set to hit 1024K (2^20) in January 2024 at current trends
Allow me to expand that number for you: 1,048,576
One million. A reasonable upper bound for max announced v4 prefixes is somewhere around two million. You can handle that in a few GB of RAM. IPv6 could see 100x or 1000x that number based on how we are handling allocations, at which point prefix trimming will happen.
What is your basis for this opinion? Network operators are already talking about it.
> Too late. IPv4 are set to hit 1024K (2^20) in January 2024 at current trends
Allow me to expand that number for you: 1,048,576
One million. A reasonable upper bound for max announced v4 prefixes is somewhere around two million. You can handle that in a few GB of RAM. IPv6 could see 100x or 1000x that number based on how we are handling allocations, at which point prefix trimming will happen.