[156917] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv6 Ignorance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas L. Byrnes)
Sat Sep 29 01:28:39 2012
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:27:34 -0700
In-Reply-To: <m2zk4oxb1u.wl%randy@psg.com>
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb@byrneit.net>
To: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>,
"John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
You won't have enough addresses for Dark Matter, Neutrinos, etc. Atoms
wind up using up about 63 bits (2^10^82) based on the current SWAG. The
missing mass is 84% of the universe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy@psg.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 8:30 PM
> To: John Levine
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: IPv6 Ignorance
>=20
> > In technology, not much. But I'd be pretty surprised if the laws of
> > arithmetic were to change, or if we were to find it useful to assign
> > IP addresses to objects smaller than a single atom.
>=20
> we assign them /64s
