Saturday, March 10, 2007

Everything you need to know about IPv6

Arstechnica has an article telling you everything you need to know about IPv6. One quote stood out for me:

The total number of possible [IPv6] addresses that this gives us:

340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456

To put this into perspective: there are currently 130 million people born each year. If this number of births remains the same until the sun goes dark in 5 billion years, and all of these people live to be 72 years old, they can all have 53 times the address space of the IPv4 Internet for every second of their lives. Let nobody accuse the IETF of being frugal this time around.

Erm... Wow.

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