[157030] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 address length technical design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Wed Oct 3 18:50:26 2012
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:49:56 -0500
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 10/3/12, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> So the address space for IPv8 will be...
> </troll>
In 100 years, when we start to run out of IPv6 addresses, possibly we
will have learned our lesson and done two things:
(1) Stopped mixing the Host identification and the Network
identification into the same bit field; instead every packet gets a
source network address, destination network address, AND an
additional tuple of Source host address, destination host
address; residing in completely separate address spaces, with no
"Netmasks", "Prefix lengths", or other comingling of network
addresses and host address spaces.
And
(2) The new protocol will use variable-length address for the Host
portion, such as used in the addresses of CLNP, with a convention of
a specified length, instead of a hardwired specific limit that comes
from using a permanently fixed-width field.
Need more bits? No protocol definition change required.
> Cheers,
> -- jra
--
-JH
