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Direct addressing that way seems unfeasible, it would require a extending the IP stack to support direct addressing for it to work, and it already support 128 b
by hvidgaard 7y ago
Direct addressing that way seems unfeasible, it would require a extending the IP stack to support direct addressing for it to work, and it already support 128 bit addresses. A far more feasible model is direct addressing through a unique IP, and we do not need a bigger address space for that.
That said, considering the current amounts of data Google holds, I could see the theoretical point about unique addressing every single byte they have. 64bit addressing only allow for a single order of magnitude of growth in that scenario.