>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> I'm sorry, but how could this *not* be posted to the IETF list?
>>
>> <http://xkcd.com/865/>
Bob> I did a rough calculation and think they would have not run out
Bob> of IPv6 addresses :-)
Bob> I assumed a nanobot was 1 x 10^-6 M^2 and the surface of the
Bob> earth was 5.1 x 10^11 M^2 (from Wikipedia). This means it
Bob> would take 5.1 x 10^17 nanobots to cover the earth. The IPv6
Bob> address space is 3.4 x 10^38. Of course, I assumed only one
Bob> layer deep.
Sorry for the late followup.
My reading of the strip was that the each colony of nanobots had to
exist in a single /64 subnet. They would naturally use RPL and probably
6lowpan to communicate. I don't think that having consumed a part of
the earth that the nanobot dies, it just becomes part of the routing
layer.
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