[157032] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 address length technical design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Wed Oct 3 19:06:11 2012
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <28390.1349305160@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 16:05:31 -0700
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 3, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:49:56 -0500, Jimmy Hess said:
>> (1) Stopped mixing the Host identification and the Network
>> identification into the same bit field;
>=20
> Where's Noel Chiappa when you need him?
Saying "I told you so" I suspect.
>> (2) The new protocol will use variable-length address for the Host
>> portion, such as used in the addresses of CLNP,
> This also was considered during the IPv6 design phase, and the router
> designers had a collective cow, as it makes ASIC design a whole lot =
more
> interesting.
Where are Tony Li, Paul Traina, and the whole TUBA orchestra when you =
need them? :-)
Regards,
-drc
