Re[2]: IPv6 addressing limitations (was "national security")

Masataka Ohta writes:

Unlimited? The limitation on public part is 20 digits.


That's just a matter of programming these days.

Ad hoc extension beyond hardware supported length
at that time will fatally hurt performance.


What hardware limits numbers to 20 digits today?

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