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Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

2000-08-11 08:00:03
"Rakers, Jason" wrote:

        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.

....that's what they said about never needing more than 640kb of memory in a
computer......
we'll never need more than that!

Please think very carefully about the orders of magnitude involved here. The
two cases are not comparable.