On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:24:30AM -0400, Curtis Maurand wrote: > > Sorry to be a curmudgeon and let me play devil's advocate for a minute. > I realize that the address space is enormous; gigantic, even, but if we > treat it as cavalierly as you all are proposing, it will get used up. > If its treated like an infinite resource that will never, ever be used > up as we have done with every other resource on the planet, won't we > find ourselves in a heap of trouble?
At this stage we're only 'being cavalier' with 1/8th of the space. We can be more restrictive with the the other 7/8ths if those predicting rapid consumption turn out to be correct. Right now that would be a nice problem to have. Tim
