At 05:17 PM 7/23/99 -0700, you 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.
In the IPV8 model, the address is 16 bits of V4 address, 4 QoS1]
bits, and most importantly a 3 bit and an 8 bit prefix to the
address. This gives you 16 * 256 times the current number of
Internets to play with.
See http://ipv8.vrx.net/kwikref/addresses/
With V6, you have to get addressed from one of the 3 RIR's, in V8
you can get addresses from any of the 2048 TLD authorities. V8 rides
over a core V4 (or V6) transport and grows the net at the edges.
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