Re: [IDNO-DISCUSS] Re: [IFWP] What I would have said...

[Mark C. Langston]

On 23 July 1999, Kent Crispin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


>On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 04:32:58PM -0700, Bill Lovell wrote:
>> For the benefit of dumb butt here, what's the IP size of the new IPv6 thing?
>> (Did I get that right?)  It's not a "dotted quad," I take it, so what is
>> it? And
>> its capacity is 2 to the what?
>
>128 bits  vs 32 bits for IPv4.  That's 
>
>340282366920938463463374607431768211456
>vs
>4294967296
>
>addresses, if I did the arithmetic correctly...
>
>Or 56713727820156410577229101238 addresses for every human on earth,
>give or take a few. 


...and ICANN will be enforcing a charge of what, per IP block?



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