Address Space
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... IP version 9
protocol comes to the end of its useful life, once again due to
address space exhaustion, we look back at some of the success of the
protocol.
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... range of addresses
available, and contention for the address space being without
problems typically.
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... transport stack is the main cause. This enables real time
communication with them, and has made the allocation of world-size
address spaces necessary, at the level 3 routing hierarchy. There is
still only 1 global (spatial) level 2 galaxy wide network ...