[23910] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wasted space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek J. Balling)
Thu Apr 29 19:57:55 1999
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:55:08 -0700
To: Austin Schutz <tex@shrubbery.net>,
Randy Bush <rbush@bainbridge.verio.net>
From: "Derek J. Balling" <dredd@megacity.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19990429164811.44045@shrubbery.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Maybe... but only if you can assign all 8-bit characters in domain names.
Last time I checked, it was a significantly small subset of that which were
truly valid.
At 04:48 PM 4/29/99 -0700, Austin Schutz wrote:
>
>>your point?
>
> It would be possible to assign names to every atom in the universe and
>still have some left over. Maybe not infinite but close enough :-)
>
> Tex
