idea for ipv6 allocation scheme

Thierry Deval TDeval@PrimeOBJ.COM
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 22:53:56 +0200


On Friday, August 3, 2001, at 01:02 , John O Comeau wrote:

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<some funny mind development>
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> named street. Numbers can then be packed into 16-bit unsigned small
> integers. Now my address is 5555 3333 St, SC, FL, US. Packed, that 
> becomes
> &fATSULFCSTS33UU, 16 bytes. Now I have my unique internet address.
                     ^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You forgot to think about the possibility of having more than 1 computer 
per street address.
What about those 1/4th mile tall skyscrapers, without counting all the 
wall switches aso...

IPv6 has chosen to keep the last 64bits as a private address part...
Can you shrink all the above in only 8 bytes ?

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<more stuff>
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T.