[156918] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv6 Ignorance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Sat Sep 29 01:31:28 2012
Date: 29 Sep 2012 01:31:15 -0400
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb@byrneit.net>
In-Reply-To: <72F9A69DCF990443B2CEC064E605CE064A8252@Pascal.zaphodb.org>
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.
Fortunately, until we find it, it doesn't need addresses.
>
>> -----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
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> we assign them /64s
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