Have you considered the possibility that you might be over-analyzing the joke here?
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Michael Richardson <[email protected]>wrote: > > >>>>> "Bob" == Bob Hinden <[email protected]> writes: > >> I'm sorry, but how could this *not* be posted to the IETF list? > >> > >> <http://xkcd.com/865/> > > Bob> I did a rough calculation and think they would have not run out > Bob> of IPv6 addresses :-) > > Bob> I assumed a nanobot was 1 x 10^-6 M^2 and the surface of the > Bob> earth was 5.1 x 10^11 M^2 (from Wikipedia). This means it > Bob> would take 5.1 x 10^17 nanobots to cover the earth. The IPv6 > Bob> address space is 3.4 x 10^38. Of course, I assumed only one > Bob> layer deep. > > Sorry for the late followup. > > My reading of the strip was that the each colony of nanobots had to > exist in a single /64 subnet. They would naturally use RPL and probably > 6lowpan to communicate. I don't think that having consumed a part of > the earth that the nanobot dies, it just becomes part of the routing > layer. > > -- > ] He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life! | > firewalls [ > ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON |net > architect[ > ] [email protected] http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device > driver[ > Kyoto Plus: watch the video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzx1ycLXQSE> > then sign the petition. > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > -- Website: http://hallambaker.com/
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