Re: How many IP addresses?

[Keith Moore]

> Doesn't this leave out a few pieces of data?  Given the current IPv6
> address format, which includes a globally unique 64 bit interface ID and 64
> bits of globally unique routing goop.  My calculation is that you only have
> 2^64 addresses to work with which leaves roughly 12 bits, maybe 14 to work
> with.

right.  but for privacy reasons you really don't want to transmit the 
64 bit interface ID around anyway.  so at some point you reclaim
those bits for use in routing.

Keith