On Aug 4, 2012, at 03:01 , Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:31:06PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> You MIGHT have paid some other organization for the privilege of >> transferring part or all of their registration rights to you. >> >> But in no case did you pay for the addresses themselves unless you are silly >> enough to think that a person can own an integer. > > IPv6 missed a great chance of doing away with all the > central waterfall trickle-down space distribution. >
There was no need to fix what wasn't broken. > Luckily, /64 looks like large enough to bypass that > by offering address space sufficiently large while > co-existable with legacy addressing and routing. Why on earth would you be messing around within /64? It should be easy enough to get a /48 (it certainly is now). > I hope eventually somebody will start > tinkering with mesh radios which also have GPS > onboard (as most smartphones and tablets do). > 24 + 24 + 16 bits are just enough to represent > a decent-resolution WGS84 position fix. Plus, > GPS gives you a pretty accurate clock. That could be an interesting project. Limiting it to a /64 still doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Owen
