> and if everyone in the world talks to everyone else in this grand > new internet then there is no need for the allocation chore. My > rough calculation says that there are 1.3*10^17 such addresses in > IPv6 space, and if I want one that's not taken I register it. Is > that a viable way of doing it? Absolutely, issue every child an address (or rather a block of em, so s/her can keep track of books, toys, pets, vaccinations, bank accts, etc) at birth. The question is, will it scale? kerry
