On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Anthony G. Atkielski wrote:
> Iljitsch van Beijnum writes: > > > In the multi6 (multihoming in IPv6) working group, as one of many > > proposals, we've been looking at putting a 64 bit host identifier in > > the bottom 64 bits of an IPv6 address. If such a host identifier is > > crypto-based (ie, a hash of a public key) then it is possible to > > authenticate a host at any time regardless of where the host connects > > to the network at that particular time and without the need for a PKI > > or prior communication. > > This is precisely the kind of mistake that will exhaust the entire IPv6 > address space just as quickly as the IPv4 address space. Don't > engineers ever learn from the past? > > Ahhh...No. Don't people understand the power of exponential growth?
