Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com>

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. Bob