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RE: IPv6 Ignorance
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 19:46:11 -0700
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 IgnoranceIn 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 /64sRegards, John Levine, johnl () iecc com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet
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- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Bruce H McIntosh (Oct 02)
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- RE: IPv6 Ignorance Tomas L. Byrnes (Oct 07)