RE: IPv6 Ignorance

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

You won't have enough addresses for Dark Matter, Neutrinos, etc. Atoms
wind up using up about 63 bits (2^10^82) based on the current SWAG. The
missing mass is 84% of the universe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy () psg com]
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 8:30 PM
> To: John Levine
> Cc: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: IPv6 Ignorance
>
> > In technology, not much.  But I'd be pretty surprised if the laws of
> > arithmetic were to change, or if we were to find it useful to assign
> > IP addresses to objects smaller than a single atom.
>
> we assign them /64s