[13407] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv8 < IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Nov 5 11:52:30 1997
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 11:42:05 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BCEA9D.1D7679C0@pc.unir.net>; from Jim Fleming <JimFleming@doorstep.unety.net> on Thu, Nov 06, 1997 at 10:16:56AM -0600
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.
Cheers,
-- jra
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