[170547] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Sat Mar 29 22:41:11 2014
Date: 29 Mar 2014 22:40:48 -0400
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Matthew Petach" <mpetach@netflight.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAEmG1=qr385bX234Gb2qMgwZnvC-GDYdZFVm=S6ZbsLwnHMEMQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> The numbers you list in your argument against a micropayment
> system being able to function are a fraction of the number of
> transactions Facebook deals with in updating newsfeeds for
> the billion+ users on their system.[0]
... which is completely irrelevant because they don't have a double
spending problem. Sheesh. It's easy to scale up stuff that is trivially
parallelizable.*
Also, I wrote that ten years ago. Add an extra zero or two to the numbers
if you want, but it doesn't make any difference.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
* - a term of art, look it up
