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> ~2^93 is enough to individually address every subatomic particle on Earth.

IPv6 address exhaustion is very unlikely, but it's more likely than some may have thought about.

Only 64-bit of the 128-bit address space was fully utilized, it means the utilization rate is less than 0.0000000000000000055%. And no, it's not a bug, it's a feature. The huge address space was intended to make address assignment, configuration, and routing easier. That is, in the real world, the first 64-bit part becomes the network identifier, and the last 64-bit becomes the device identifier. Ideally, everyone's home, business, institution, datacenter, etc, will get a unique, globally routable 64-bit network prefix.

So no, every subatomic particle on Earth will not get its own IPv6 address. But, everyone of the 7 billion people on Earth can have prefixes for their 263,524,915 personal computer networks.



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