IPv6 Ignorance

Sat Sep 29 06:53:42 UTC 2012

To address everything in the Universe wouldn't you then get stuck in
some kinda of loop of having to address the matter that is used by the
addresses... i.e. to address everything in the Universe you need more
matter than the Universe?

*brain* pop

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 4:17 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>wrote:

> My customer the Dark Matter local galaxy group beg to disagree; just
> because you cannot see them does not mean that you cannot feel them
> gravitationally.
>
> Or route to them.
>
>
> George William Herbert
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 28, 2012, at 10:31 PM, "John R. Levine" <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
>
> >> You won't have enough addresses for Dark Matter, Neutrinos, etc. Atoms
> >> wind up using up about 63 bits (2^10^82) based on the current SWAG. The
> >> missing mass is 84% of the universe.
> >
> > Fortunately, until we find it, it doesn't need addresses.
> >
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy at psg.com]
> >>> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 8:30 PM
> >>> To: John Levine
> >>> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> >>> Subject: Re: IPv6 Ignorance
> >>>
> >>>> In technology, not much.  But I'd be pretty surprised if the laws of
> >>>> arithmetic were to change, or if we were to find it useful to assign
> >>>> IP addresses to objects smaller than a single atom.
> >>>
> >>> we assign them /64s
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
> Dummies",
> > Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
> >
>
>

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