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Mon Oct 5 21:47:12 UTC 2009

The estimated mass of our galaxy is around 6x10^42Kg. The mass of earth is a
little less than 6x10^24Kg.

 2^128 is around 3.4x10^38.
So in a flat address space we have about one IPV6 address for every 20,000Kg
in the galaxy or for every 20 picograms in the earth...

One would hope it would last for a while :)

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:32 PM, <bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:

>
> considered top posting to irritate a few folks, decided not to.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 04:20:44PM -0500, Chris Owen wrote:
> > On Oct 5, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote:
> >
> > >Whenever you declare something to be "inexhasutable" all you do is
> > >increase demand. Eventually you reach a point where you realize that
> > >there is, in fact, a limit to the inexhaustable resource.
> >
> > This is where I think there is a major disconnect on IPv6.   The size
> > of the pool is just so large that people just can't wrap their heads
> > around it.
> >
> > 2^128 is enough space for every man, woman and child on the planet to
> > have around 4 billion /64s to themselves.   Even if we assume everyone
> > might possibly need say 10 /64s per person that still means we are
> > covered until the population hits around 2,600,000,000,000,000,000.
> >
> > Chris
> >
>
>         here, you expose a hidebound bias to 20th century networking.
>        please remember that - with few exceptions - people network
>        at a very different level than machines.  people don't need
>        IP addresses - computing nodes that want to communicate do.
>
>        Just for grins, put a unique IPv6 address in every active RFID
>        tag.  ...  and remember that there are RFID printers that can
>        put 18 tags on a single A4 sheet.  Numbers will become disposible,
>        like starbucks coffee cups and MCD's bigmac containers.
>
> --bill
>
>