considered top posting to irritate a few folks, decided not to. On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 04:20:44PM -0500, Chris Owen wrote:
On Oct 5, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote:
Whenever you declare something to be "inexhasutable" all you do is increase demand. Eventually you reach a point where you realize that there is, in fact, a limit to the inexhaustable resource.
This is where I think there is a major disconnect on IPv6. The size of the pool is just so large that people just can't wrap their heads around it.
2^128 is enough space for every man, woman and child on the planet to have around 4 billion /64s to themselves. Even if we assume everyone might possibly need say 10 /64s per person that still means we are covered until the population hits around 2,600,000,000,000,000,000.
Chris
here, you expose a hidebound bias to 20th century networking. please remember that - with few exceptions - people network at a very different level than machines. people don't need IP addresses - computing nodes that want to communicate do. Just for grins, put a unique IPv6 address in every active RFID tag. ... and remember that there are RFID printers that can put 18 tags on a single A4 sheet. Numbers will become disposible, like starbucks coffee cups and MCD's bigmac containers. --bill