Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

[Brian E Carpenter]

"Rakers, Jason" wrote:
> 
>         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!

Please think very carefully about the orders of magnitude involved here. The
two cases are not comparable.