Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

Tue Oct 19 08:41:14 UTC 2010

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eugen Leitl 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:18 AM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption
> 
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 09:27:21PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> 
> > I have a feeling that IP addresses will now be used in ways that
> people
> > have not envisioned them being used before.  Given a surplus of any
> > resource, people find creative ways of using it.
> 
> Encoding high-resolution geographic coordinates, for multiple bodies
> in the solar system.

I was thinking more along the lines of dynamic IP assignment on server
hosts and mapping client 64-bit GUIDs to ip addresses for directing
traffic to the host with the client state information.