On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 04:00:43AM +1000, Robert Elz wrote:
> 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.
more than 2^16 phones. Oops. Of course, the phone would be a single device.
I shouldn't post on Fridays.
Regards,
-is
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