RE: IPv6 Ignorance

["John R. Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

> 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.

Fortunately, until we find it, it doesn't need addresses.

> > -----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

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