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> > When hosting providers throw /64s at every VM you buy, the size of the address space is useless when it's occupied by a small fraction of machines. IPs are supposed to be addresses to machines and not that you have 2^64 addresses resemble a single machine.
the last 64 bit are the interface address. the first 64 bits for the network already are 32 bit more than the whole address space of v4. i'd have used longer prefixes, but in reality it's not that relevant imo.