On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:42:38AM +0100, Romain Riviere wrote:
> > Who knows, a /56 is a BIG space, yet if we start handing out /56 space to light switches then perhaps we are back at square one?
>
> Except that there are 2^56 /56 prefixes, roughly 10 million
> times the world population. I don't see exhaustion looming over the 35-year horizon just quite yet :)--
I beg to differ. Dust mote sensor networks can easily be in
excess of billions or trillions devices.
Moreover, the solar system is pretty big. Add self-replicating
hardware, and suddenly 128 bits and 35 years don't appear
that much.
Received on Sun Nov 14 07:42:47 2010