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Re: IPv6 Ignorance


From: George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:17:15 -0700

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

Regards,
John Levine, johnl () iecc com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly



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