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From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
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Subject: Re: (ngtrans) Fw: [apnic-announce] IPv6 Policy Document Revision
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On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 04:00:43AM +1000, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Fri, 7 Jul 2000 18:57:50 +0200
>     From:        Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
>     Message-ID:  <20000707185750.C25625@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
> 
> This is a non-issue, because we're not doing this, but ...
> 
>   | assuming everybody could afford (at least) on phone, IP(v6) over the NMBA
>   | network called "the world-wide phone system" already would need more then
>   | 2^32 addresses, right?
> 
> That's going to depend upon whether there is internal structure in that
> numbering, aside from what is in the phone numbers already.  2^32 is
> probably too small for that particular subnet, but ...
> 
>   | /80 would be a problem even for all phones in Germany.
> 
> Germany really has more than 2^48 phones?  Or even more than a 2^48
> phone number space?   That's a 15 (decimal) digit phone number space.

more than 2^16 phones. Oops. Of course, the phone would be a single device.
I shouldn't post on Fridays.

Regards,
	-is

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