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While IPv6 provides many improvements in network management, one of the major driving forces behind its design was to greatly increase address space. An IPv4 address uses 32 bits whereas an IPv6 address uses 128 bits. Thus, IPv6 is theoretically capable of providing many millions of IP addresses for every human on the planet!
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Aitchison, R. (2011). DNS and IPv6. In: Pro DNS and BIND 10. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3049-6_5
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