On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 2:31 AM, Michael Crapse <michael@wi-fiber.io> wrote:
And if a medical breakthrough happens within the next 30 years? Nanobots that process insulin for the diabetic, or take care of cancer, or repair your cells so you don't age, or whatever, perhaps the inventor things ipv6 is a good idea for such an endeavour. a nanobot is microns wide, and there will be billions per person, hopefully not all on the same broadcast domain.In fact, as you saay, we should treat /64s as a /32 and a /64 for ptp. So each nanobot gets a /64. 10B nanobots per person times 20B people = oh, crap, we've exhausted the entirety of ipv6 an order of magnitude ago. Let alone the fact that actual usable ipv6 /64s is 2 orders of magnitude below that.
(the time has finally arrived) Obligatory xkcd ref: https://xkcd.com/865/