IPv6 Ignorance

Tue Sep 18 03:14:20 UTC 2012

On Sep 17, 2012, at 12:54 , Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:27:04AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> 
>> What technology are you planning to deploy that will consume more than 2 addresses per square cm?
> 
> Easy. Think volume (as in: orbit), and think um^3 for a functional computers ;)

I meant real-world application.

Orbits are limited due to the required combination of speed and altitude. There are a limited number of
achievable altitudes and collision avoidance also creates interesting problems in time-slotting for
orbits which are not geostationary.

Geostationary orbits are currently limited to one object per degree of earth surface, and even at 4x
that, you could give every satellite a /48 and still not burn through a /32.

Owen