On 09/01/17 21:06, @lbutlr wrote: > 640K RAM ought to be enough for everybody. >> No even similar. The address space for 128bit is in the general neighborhood >> of the number of atoms in the universe. > Sorry, that's 256 bits. 128 bits is the number of stars in > 100,000,000,000,000,000 universes. All I'm saying is that "we" might merely not yet have thought of how end users might be able to make use of a plethora of IP addresses.
And the uses that "we" do come up with might be wasteful (such as determining certain fields of assigned IPv6 addresses by making them up (i.e. using random bits)), such that the address space is being used only (very) sparsely). Anyway, probably off-topic.
