From: Wayne Johnson > One of the benefits of the 16 byte address was to remove the dependence > on hierarchy.? With the 4 byte address there is partitioning of the address > between countries, RIRs, service providers, companies, networks, sites, > and finally resolving to a node.? By adding to the address space it allows > for "mobile" ip addresses.? The same ip address at work also works at > home regardless of who or what the ISP is. Microsoft says: "Unlike the current IPv4-based Internet, which has a mixture of both flat and hierarchical routing, the IPv6-based Internet has been designed from its foundation to support efficient, hierarchical addressing and routing." 8 byte addresses would provide for more than 4 billion addresses for each IPv4 address. --- > Wayne Johnson,???????????? | There are two kinds of people: Those > 3943 Penn Ave. N.????????? | who say to God, "Thy will be done," > Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | and those to whom God says, "All right, > (612) 522-7003 <%28612%29%20522-7003>???????????? | then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis If you are in the latter camp, I hope on election day you will join the "Thy will be done" camp, and vote yes on the marriage amendment. Children deserve to have a father and a mother. -- Brian Wood Ebenezer Enterprises http://webEbenezer.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20121031/ff2d9af3/attachment.html>