[ppml] IPv6, Vista, and the Popular Press

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 04:53:30PM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>I wonder if the author failed math class or is making a commentary

I have heard that a large part of the reason IPv6 is 128 bits of address
space instead of 64 is that a significant number of people on the committee
didn't fully understand that 64 bits is way way more than twice the number
of addresses we have with IPv4.

Sean
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