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Re: IPv4 address length technical design

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Oct 5 09:07:34 2012

In-Reply-To: <20590.7539.491575.455977@world.std.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 09:06:58 -0400
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
> In Singapore in June 2011 I gave a talk at HackerSpaceSG about just
> doing away with IP addresses entirely, and DNS.
> About the only obvious objection, other than vague handwaves about
> compute efficiency, is it would potentially make packets a lot longer

What portion of your audience would you say took it at face value
without realizing they'd been trolled?

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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