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Vint Cerf Says No To IPv7, Yes To InterPlanetary Web
jbrodkin writes "IPv6 is here, but what's up with IPv7? Nothing, says Vint Cerf. While one day there may be another new Internet Protocol, work is not happening on it now. 'At the moment there doesn't seem to be any incentive for inventing yet another one,' he said in an interview. However, he contends that 2011 will be a Big Year for his pet project, the extraterrestrial 'InterPlanetary Internet.' The 'Bundle' network protocols will be tested in space and standardized to 'make them available to all the space-faring countries.' As they are used with more spacecraft, 'we can literally grow an interplanetary network that can support both man and robotic exploration.'"
You can express IPv6 adresses with quad-dotted notation if you wish, going way over the 255 limit. The truth is that it is the underlying number of bytes in an IP packet header that matters.
IPv6 addresses range is 0.0.0.0 to 4294967295.4294967295.4294967295.4294967295
2^128 or 3.4×10^38 addresses.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
you should clarify that you mean half way on a logarithmic scale. .5*10^80 would be half-way.
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