[157105] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 address length technical design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Thomas)
Fri Oct 5 21:11:55 2012
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:11:14 -0700
From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
In-Reply-To: <20591.31343.30301.633043@world.std.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 10/05/2012 05:25 PM, Barry Shein wrote:
> 5. Bits is bits.
>
> I don't know how to say that more clearly.
>
> An ipv6 address is a string of 128 bits with some segmentation
> implications (net part, host part.)
>
> A host name is a string of bits of varying length. But it's still just
> ones and zeros, an integer, however you want to read it.
Wasn't David Cheriton proposing something like this?
http://www-dsg.stanford.edu/triad/
Mike
