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Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

2000-08-11 07:40:03
Anthony Atkielski wrote:

Brian Carpenter writes:

This is some sort of urban legend. If a routeable
prefix was given to every human, using a predicted
world population of 11 billion, we would
consume about 0.004% of the total IPv6 address
space.

Surely you recall the quotation attributed to Thomas J. Watson: "The world
will never need more than five computers."

Indeed, although he probably never said it. That's why we didn't pick
64 bits for the IPv6 address.

   Brian