lifetime
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... common metaphor in engineering is that every time a problem increases
in size by an order of magnitude, it becomes a new problem. This
adage has been true over the lifetime of the Internet.
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... Internet.
The first problem is simply one of supply. There are only 2^32 IPv4
addresses available. The lifetime of that space is proportional to
the efficiency of its allocation and utilization. The second problem
is mainly a capacity problem. If the number of routes exceeds the
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