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If this becomes more common, the IPv6 address space will be exhausted pretty quickly. There already was a proposal on encoding phone numbers in IPv6 addresses.
by hoppelhase 8y ago
If this becomes more common, the IPv6 address space will be exhausted pretty quickly. There already was a proposal on encoding phone numbers in IPv6 addresses.
- xionon 8y agoThere are 2^128 available addresses in ipv6. Encoding phone numbers isn’t even remotely a problem.
- hoppelhase 8y agoWell, the proposal was controversial. There was an article about this recently on the German news site Heise: https://heise.de/-4196981 https://heise.de/-4196981 Translation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fheise.de%2F-4196981&edit-text=&act=url https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
- notjosh 8y agoThe article has a note on that saying: > If you think this use of addresses seems wasteful, you needn’t worry. There are around 3.4×1038 IPv6 addresses, enough for 10^27 such displays. So even an intentionally wasteful project has plenty of headroom for quite a while yet!
- hoppelhase 8y agoBy "this" I mean encoding information in the address in general, not this signage-thing. See my other reply in this thread.