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IETF draft calls to grant five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators
- evanjrowley 10mo agoI hadn't heard of a "nonillion" before, so I looked it up[0]. often attributive US : a number equal to 1 followed by 30 zeros -> see Table of Numbers also, British : a number equal to 1 followed by 54 zeros -> see Table of Numbers Hopefully that clears things up. /s [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonillion https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonillion
- RiverCrochet 10mo agoThe IANA is using the first 3 bits of IPv6 to divide up the space. The ones currently in use are - 000: "unspecified/loopback/embedded IPv4." - 001: global unicast (GUA) - 111: LLA/ULA/multicast So IPv6 addresses starting with 44 (44::/16 or 0044:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000/16) would fall into the 000 bucket above. There's already carve-outs in 000 (::1 and the embedded IPv4 stuff). Why not?