If this becomes more common, the IPv6 address space will be exhausted pretty qui...

xionon · on Dec 25, 2018

There are 2^128 available addresses in ipv6. Encoding phone numbers isn’t even remotely a problem.

hoppelhase · on Dec 25, 2018

Well, the proposal was controversial.

There was an article about this recently on the German news site Heise: https://heise.de/-4196981

notjosh · on Dec 25, 2018

The article has a note on that saying:

> If you think this use of addresses seems wasteful, you needn’t worry. There are around 3.4×1038 IPv6 addresses, enough for 10^27 such displays.

So even an intentionally wasteful project has plenty of headroom for quite a while yet!

hoppelhase · on Dec 25, 2018

By "this" I mean encoding information in the address in general, not this signage-thing. See my other reply in this thread.