the commission is not responsible for the assignment of IP address space
is it???
vint
At 02:53 PM 8/11/2000 -0700, Greg Skinner wrote:
>Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > If a routeable prefix was given to every human, using a predicted
> > world population of 11 billion, we would consume about 0.004% of the
> > total IPv6 address space.
>
> > (The actual calculation is 11*10^9/2^48 since there are 48
> > bits in an IPv6 routing prefix. Or
> > 11,000,000,000 / 281,474,976,710,656 = 0.000039 )
>
>I have heard on some local (SF bay area) technology news reports that
>the Commission on Online Child Protection is looking at dividing the
>IPv6 address space into regions that can be classified according to
>their "safety" for child access.
>
>Depending on how this allocation is done (if it's done), couldn't this
>mean we will still need NAT?
>
>--gregbo
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