Re: (ngtrans) Fw: [apnic-announce] IPv6 Policy Document Revision

[Robert Elz]

    Date:        Fri, 7 Jul 2000 18:57:50 +0200
    From:        Ignatios Souvatzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    Message-ID:  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

This is a non-issue, because we're not doing this, but ...

  | assuming everybody could afford (at least) on phone, IP(v6) over the NMBA
  | network called "the world-wide phone system" already would need more then
  | 2^32 addresses, right?

That's going to depend upon whether there is internal structure in that
numbering, aside from what is in the phone numbers already.  2^32 is
probably too small for that particular subnet, but ...

  | /80 would be a problem even for all phones in Germany.

Germany really has more than 2^48 phones?  Or even more than a 2^48
phone number space?   That's a 15 (decimal) digit phone number space.

In any case, the 2^64 space allocated for subnets is easily going to
be big enough to map the POTS number space, should anyone actually
want to do that.

kre
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