Or just use their IP address as a useful universal identifier, which is kind of the point of V6. Whether you can be routed to isn't the point. It's that, if/when you can, there is an address, and it's easy to assign/divine, that you can be reached at, is.
-----Original Message----- From: George Herbert [mailto:george.herbert@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 11:17 PM To: John R. Levine; George Herbert Cc: Tomas L. Byrnes; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IPv6 Ignorance
My customer the Dark Matter local galaxy group beg to disagree; just because you cannot see them does not mean that you cannot feel them gravitationally.
Or route to them.
George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 28, 2012, at 10:31 PM, "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
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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