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Re: Review of draft-ietf-v6ops-nap-02.txt
- To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
- Subject: Re: Review of draft-ietf-v6ops-nap-02.txt
- From: David Conrad <david.conrad@icann.org>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 09:42:34 -0700
- Cc: Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>, Jim Bound <Jim.Bound@hp.com>, Tony Hain <alh-ietf@tndh.net>, Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com>, EricLKlein <ericlklein@softhome.net>, gunter@cisco.com, Ralph Droms <rdroms@cisco.com>, v6ops@ops.ietf.org, Lindqvist Erik Kurt <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>, Margaret Wasserman <margaret@thingmagic.com>
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Fred,
On May 31, 2006, at 8:48 AM, Fred Baker wrote:
Yes, we support about 3 * 10^38 addresses in the address space.
That is a mathematically accurate statement.
No. A mathematically correct statement would be that IPv6 can, in
theory, address up to about 3*10^38 objects. The number of objects
that can actually be supported is, of course, far, far less.
Rgds,
-drc