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Re: Non routable IPv6 registry proposal

John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 21 January 2021 00:16 UTC

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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
To: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>, IETF general list <ietf@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: Non routable IPv6 registry proposal
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> No. Collissions are actually almost guaranteed (birthday paradox).

When I do the birthday paradox calculation, I find that the chances that 
100,000 random numbers each 40 bits long are all different is about 95%. 
I'll take those odds.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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