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> At the end of the day, with 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses, handing out too many isn't ever going to be a big worry in the foreseeable lifetime of..
by joering2 11y ago
> At the end of the day, with 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses, handing out too many isn't ever going to be a big worry in the foreseeable lifetime of...anything, really.
Gates already made that mistake.
I know "this time is different", but if you start thinking of "internet of things", where literally every little thing in the world can be called (so needs its own name/number/ip/etc), then at some point we might run out of those numbers as well.
I'm not sure how much (2^128) / 7 000 000 000 is, but it seemed not alot of every human's property can have its own address.
- ikeboy 11y agoEvery human can have trillions of addresses and not use that up.
- joering2 11y agoThen every "device" you have connected with every other person's device might need its own public address. And all of sudden, 640 kilobytes is not enough.
- kruczek 11y ago> I'm not sure how much (2^128) / 7 000 000 000 is, but it seemed not alot of every human's property can have its own address. Well, to put it into perspective, imagine that humans would colonize planets around all 400 billion stars in our galaxy (let's say that each star has 10 planets), with 7 billion people on each of them, and each person having 7 billion devices, each device could still have almost 2 million unique addresses available. The range by itself IS big enough for any foreseeable future. The problem may come from the fact that not all that range is available for use.