<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:48 AM, JK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jknapka@kneuro.net">jknapka@kneuro.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Michael H. Warfield wrote:<br>
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> I hope you appreciate the magnitude of the numbers here. I remember<br>
> someone saying that if all the stars in this galaxy had one planet like<br>
> earth with the same population as the earth and you gave each person a<br>
> cell phone, you'd have enough addresses to give each cell phone a block<br>
> of addresses and still not run out. I've never run those numbers down<br>
> but a single IPv6 subnet has 4 billion times as many addresses as the<br>
> entire IPv4 internet and each IPv6 network has 65,536 of those subnets.<br>
> There are other limits of scale (like the speed of light) which will<br>
> kick in long before those addresses become a problem.<br>
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</div>Another view of these numbers: at some point rather soon we may be<br>
confronted with the issue of how to address many many tiny entities<br>
(nanomachines etc). The ip6 address space allows for 10^11 addresses<br>
per cubic millimeter of the Earth's biosphere from sea level to 10km;<br>
so assigning an ip6 to each nanite is a possibility. Getting the<br>
nanite overlords of one planet talking to those of another may<br>
require NAT, though.</blockquote><div><br>Cool! I can have a valid address for every cell in my body! Then I can run Microsoft Ultimate Home Subscriber Planetwide Monitoring Server with DHS Backlinking and then I can view in REAL-TIME the total degradation of my sanity during an attempt to find something to watch on TV.<br>
<br>-sheesh!-<br><br>All that address space and we _still_ get wrestling on the Sci-Fi channel and "reality" shows everywhere else.<br><br>Makes me miss "Mork and Mindy".<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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(Back of the envelope calculation, YAddressCountMV, etc)<br>
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-- JK<br>
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