Re: [IDNO-DISCUSS] Re: [IFWP] What I would have said...

[Karl Auerbach]

> 128 bits  vs 32 bits for IPv4.  That's 
> 
> 340282366920938463463374607431768211456
> vs
> 4294967296
> 
> addresses, if I did the arithmetic correctly...
> 
> Or 56713727820156410577229101238 addresses for every human on earth,
> give or take a few. 

And not that it needs to be mentioned (we're all routing wizards, right?  
;-) -- we have never really been short of addresses, the big problem has
always been efficient use of addresses and aggregation of addresses and
routing prefixes.

In other words, even with all those new addresses, it is still going to be
very important in the IPv6 world to allocate those addresses in a way that
conforms to the topology of the network in order to avoid having massive
routing tables and long delays to propogate routing information.

                --karl--