[157114] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 address length technical design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Sat Oct 6 13:51:23 2012
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 13:47:26 -0400
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGW3eGd-6HseFoq=DhO7q1AxEz58O03iONcnGjzr=t8WFg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
It's occured to you that FQDNs contain some structured information,
no?
-b
On October 5, 2012 at 21:47 bill@herrin.us (William Herrin) wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
> > 5. Bits is bits.
> > I don't know how to say that more clearly.
>
> Hi Barry,
>
> Bits is bits and atoms is atoms so lets swap all the iron for helium
> and see how that works out for us.
>
> You can say "bits as bits" as clearly as you like but however you say
> it you'll be wrong. Bits are defined by the semantics of their use.
> Any equality or inequality between one bit and another, and in fact
> whether they can be meaningfully compared at all, is found in those
> semantics.
>
> Bits ain't just bits. Bits are information *in context.* Change the
> context, change the bits.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
>
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