Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

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."