[hoppelhase]

If this becomes more common, the IPv6 address space will be exhausted pretty quickly. There already was a proposal on encoding phone numbers in IPv6 addresses.

[xionon]

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

[hoppelhase]

Well, the proposal was controversial.

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

Translation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...

[notjosh]

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]

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