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Re 4: Only under incredibly optimistic models of the future survival and expansion of our species! The IPv6 address space has about 10^38 addresses. Earth's lan
by homeomorphic 13y ago
Re 4: Only under incredibly optimistic models of the future survival and expansion of our species! The IPv6 address space has about 10^38 addresses. Earth's land surface is about 150*10^18 square meters. So in a future where the planet is so crowded that every person lives on a single square meter and owns 10^6 globally routable gadgets, we'd still need 10^12 Earth sized planets to exhaust IPv6.
(Caveat, I'm back-of-the-enveloping this on my phone about to go to sleep
But still!)