[13438] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv8 < IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Nov 5 23:06:32 1997
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 22:59:15 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19971105204529.37624@freedom.bythetrees.com>; from Alan Hannan <hannan@bythetrees.com> on Wed, Nov 05, 1997 at 08:45:29PM -0500
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 (jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us):
> > 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
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