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RE: Wasted space

  • From: Roeland M.J. Meyer
  • Date: Thu Apr 29 20:04:24 1999 
So you trade dotted quad notation for a base36 number? That defeats the purpose of DNS. Your statement is meaningless, as your local dictionary will show. Randy is right, DNS is finite as well, albeit, constrained semantically, rather than mathematically.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Austin Schutz
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 4:48 PM
> To: Randy Bush
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Wasted space
> 
> 
> 
> >your point?
> 
> 	It would be possible to assign names to every atom in the 
> universe and
> still have some left over. Maybe not infinite but close enough :-)
> 
> 	Tex
>