From: Wayne Johnson<br>
<br>> One of the benefits of the 16 byte address was to remove the dependence
<br>> on hierarchy.? With the 4 byte address there is partitioning of the
address <br>> between countries, RIRs, service providers, companies, networks,
sites, <br>> and finally resolving to a node.? By adding to the address space
it allows <br>> for "mobile" ip addresses.? The same ip address at work also
works at <br>> home regardless of who or what the ISP is.<br>
<br>Microsoft says:<br>"Unlike the current IPv4-based Internet, which has a mixture of both flat
and <br>hierarchical routing, the IPv6-based Internet has been designed
from its <br>foundation to support efficient, hierarchical addressing and
routing." <br><br>8 byte addresses would provide for more than 4 billion addresses for<br>each IPv4 address. <br><br><br>
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