Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

[Brian E Carpenter]

Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> 
> Brian Carpenter writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Surely you recall the quotation attributed to Thomas J. Watson: "The world
> will never need more than five computers."

Indeed, although he probably never said it. That's why we didn't pick
64 bits for the IPv6 address.

   Brian