====== YIP Address Structure ======

YIP addresses consist of 81 trits (27 [[lore:balanced_base_27|BB27]] digits). This gives YIP an address space of 3^81 or roughly 4.43*10^38. Since it's [[lore:balanced ternary]], half the space is negative and half is positive. This distinction is likely significant but I'm not yet sure how. Perhaps negative addresses cannot cross the borders between autonomous systems, making them similar to IPv6 unique local addresses or RFC 1918 IPv4 addresses.

A YIP address may be written in nine groups of three BB27 digits like this

  bcd-fgh-jkl-mnp-qBC-DFG-HJK-LMN-PQb
  
The address may be further divided into a network prefix, subnet ID, and interface suffix. 

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