Or just use their IP address as a useful universal identifier, which is kind of the point of V6. Whether you can be routed to isn't the point. It's that, if/when you can, there is an address, and it's easy to assign/divine, that you can be reached at, is.
> -----Original Message----- > From: George Herbert [mailto:george.herb...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 11:17 PM > To: John R. Levine; George Herbert > Cc: Tomas L. Byrnes; nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: IPv6 Ignorance > > My customer the Dark Matter local galaxy group beg to disagree; just > because you cannot see them does not mean that you cannot feel them > gravitationally. > > Or route to them. > > > George William Herbert > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 28, 2012, at 10:31 PM, "John R. Levine" <jo...@iecc.com> wrote: > > >> You won't have enough addresses for Dark Matter, Neutrinos, etc. > >> Atoms wind up using up about 63 bits (2^10^82) based on the current > >> SWAG. The missing mass is 84% of the universe. > > > > Fortunately, until we find it, it doesn't need addresses. > > > >> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: Randy Bush [mailto:ra...@psg.com] > >>> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 8:30 PM > >>> To: John Levine > >>> Cc: nanog@nanog.org > >>> Subject: Re: IPv6 Ignorance > >>> > >>>> In technology, not much. But I'd be pretty surprised if the laws > >>>> of arithmetic were to change, or if we were to find it useful to > >>>> assign IP addresses to objects smaller than a single atom. > >>> > >>> we assign them /64s > > > > Regards, > > John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for > > Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. > > http://jl.ly > >
