On Feb 28, 2011, at 11:16 AM, João Damas wrote: > > On 28 Feb 2011, at 09:40, Bob Hinden wrote: > >> Pete, >> >> On Feb 27, 2011, at 11:32 PM, Pete Resnick wrote: >> >>> I'm sorry, but how could this *not* be posted to the IETF list? >>> >>> <http://xkcd.com/865/> >> >> I did a rough calculation and think they would have not run out of IPv6 addresses :-) >> >> I assumed a nanobot was 1 x 10^-6 M^2 and the surface of the earth was 5.1 x 10^11 M^2 (from Wikipedia). This means it would take 5.1 x 10^17 nanobots to cover the earth. The IPv6 address space is 3.4 x 10^38. Of course, I assumed only one layer deep. > > is that with a /48 or a /64 per bot? A /128, of course. I assume nanobots have very efficient ways to use subnets. Bob _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf