[157058] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 address length technical design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Thu Oct 4 14:20:38 2012
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 19:19:43 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <995CA426-890A-4077-B90E-7BCE9A4712A9@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>
> Once host identifiers are no longer dependent on or related to topology,
> there's no reason a reasonable fixed-length cannot suffice.
Host identities should be cryptographic hashes of public keys, so you have
to support algorithm agility, which probably implies variable length.
Tony.
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