[156919] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Ignorance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Sat Sep 29 02:17:56 2012
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209290130480.85312@joyce.lan>
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:17:15 -0700
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>,
George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
My customer the Dark Matter local galaxy group beg to disagree; just because=
you cannot see them does not mean that you cannot feel them gravitationally=
.
Or route to them.
George William Herbert
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 28, 2012, at 10:31 PM, "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>=20
> Fortunately, until we find it, it doesn't need addresses.
>=20
>>=20
>>> -----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
>=20
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dumm=
ies",
> Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
>=20
