----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian E Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Corzine, Gordie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 9:30 PM
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 )
Does this mean that every router will have to handle 2^48 routing table
entries and that this vast amount of information must be sent over the
internet on every routing table update?
Salavat
