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RE: Review of draft-ietf-v6ops-nap-02.txt



<slightly off-topic>

Why the difference between objects and addresses in this particular case
for the matematical model? Practically I completely agree, but matemathical
i'm not sure yet? (what if all prefixes are /128?)


G/ 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-v6ops@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-v6ops@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf
Of David Conrad
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 6:43 PM
To: Fred Baker
Cc: Thomas Narten; Jim Bound; Tony Hain; Brian E Carpenter; EricLKlein;
gunter@cisco.com; Ralph Droms; v6ops@ops.ietf.org; Lindqvist Erik Kurt;
Margaret Wasserman
Subject: Re: Review of draft-ietf-v6ops-nap-02.txt

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