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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: IPv8 < IPv6
On Wed, Nov 05, 1997 at 08:45:29PM -0500, Alan Hannan wrote: > Yes, and when my mother didn't make me go to bed at night, I was > rather cranky, and tardy in my multiplication tables and spelling > exercises the next day. You know, Alan... I could'a sworn I wrote something that equates to "Yeah, Jim, but that's not what peopler _are doing_." <looks> Yep, that's what I wrote. > That we can impose strict hierarchy on address allocations (like > our friends at RIPE, APNIC, and InterNIC have done) is part of the > reason our networking system has assumed a somewhat manageable > growth wrt addressnig. > > Big Brother impositions are fine, if the benevolent dictatorship > really is altruistic. (in community space allocation) Any particular reason you're dragging in Big Bother, when what I cited was _the market_? > DISCLAIMER -- THIS IS NOT TO IMPLY THAT I SUPPORT, CONDONE, OR > AGREE WITH JIM FLEMING. RATHER I HARBOR FEARS THAT > HE FLIRTS WITH DANGEROUS CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES, AND > PERCEIVES THE WORLD IN A MANNER UNLIKE ANY OF SANE > MIND AND BODY. And what are _you_ smoking? > Quoting Jay R. Ashworth ([email protected]): > > On Thu, Nov 06, 1997 at 10:16:56AM -0600, Jim Fleming wrote: > > > There is a natural routing hierarchy with IPv8 > > > addressing....8 regions, 256 distribution centers > > > in each region and full 32 bit Internets from there. > > > IPv8 addresses can fit inside the IPv6 address fields. > > > > The problem here, as I see it, is that this _imposes_ a hierarchical > > structure onto the physical design on the net, which has not been the > > observed pattern of growth. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sho nuff. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Pedantry. It's not just a job, it's an Tampa Bay, Florida adventure." -- someone on AFU +1 813 790 7592
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