This is some sort of urban legend. If a routeable prefix was given
to
every human, using a predicted world population of 11 billion, we
would
consume about 0.004% of the total IPv6 address space.
....that's what they said about never needing more than 640kb of memory in a
computer......
we'll never need more than that!
Jason
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian E Carpenter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 4:31 PM
> To: Corzine, Gordie
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?
>
> "Corzine, Gordie" wrote:
> >
> > Seriously,
> >
> > As was pointed out recently, IPV6 will croak much sooner than it needs
> to
> > for the simple reason that we structure routing intelligence into the
> > address assignment.
>
> This is some sort of urban legend. If a routeable prefix was given to
> every human, using a predicted world population of 11 billion, we would
> consume about 0.004% of the total IPv6 address space.
>
> (The actual calculation is 11*10^9/2^48 since there are 48
> bits in an IPv6 routing prefix. Or
> 11,000,000,000 / 281,474,976,710,656 = 0.000039 )
>
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