On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:31:06PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > You MIGHT have paid some other organization for the privilege of transferring > part or all of their registration rights to you. > > But in no case did you pay for the addresses themselves unless you are silly > enough to think that a person can own an integer.
IPv6 missed a great chance of doing away with all the central waterfall trickle-down space distribution. Luckily, /64 looks like large enough to bypass that by offering address space sufficiently large while co-existable with legacy addressing and routing. I hope eventually somebody will start tinkering with mesh radios which also have GPS onboard (as most smartphones and tablets do). 24 + 24 + 16 bits are just enough to represent a decent-resolution WGS84 position fix. Plus, GPS gives you a pretty accurate clock.
