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To: antiRepublicrat
Trouble is, for anything more than loopback, it's very verbose. For instance here's my IPv6 address: fe80::4a5b:39ff:fe10:7f1e/64 and it's IPv4 equivalent: 192.168.1.64.

We'll get used to it eventually, but it's gonna take a while. One of the biggest problems I see is address allocation. If we're not somewhat smart about how addresses are allocated, the vast majority of address space will be wasted (as is the case today already with IPv4).

8 posted on 06/05/2012 8:32:35 AM PDT by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: zeugma
Trouble is, for anything more than loopback, it's very verbose. For instance here's my IPv6 address: fe80::4a5b:39ff:fe10:7f1e/64 and it's IPv4 equivalent: 192.168.1.64.

Most of the time you'll be dealing with subnets, so you won't have to remember that much. But yes, there are more numbers available, so the number field will be larger. It's taking some getting used to for me. And don't forget multicast, ff02::1.

If we're not somewhat smart about how addresses are allocated, the vast majority of address space will be wasted

Every person in the world could get his own /64 subnet and we'd barely put a scratch in the address space. I don't think we're going to have a problem in the next few hundred years, unless we start getting injected with billions of nanomachines, each with their own IP address. Actually, even that doesn't come close to hitting 2^64.

10 posted on 06/05/2012 1:59:25 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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