worse than IPv6 Pain Experiment

Wed Oct 9 21:43:00 UTC 2019

OK OK OK.

Can I summarize the current round of objections to my admittedly
off-beat proposal (use basically URLs rather than IP addresses in IP
packet src/dest) as:

  We can't do that! It would require changing something!

I've no doubt many here are comfortable with the current architecture.

Bits is bits.

URLs are, to a machine, just bit strings though they do incorporate a
hierarchical structure which isn't that dissimilar from current
network/host parts of IP addresses.

URLs are an obvious candidate to consider because they're in use, seem
to basically work to identify routing endpoints, and are far from a
random, out of thin air, choice.

Given the vast improvements in hardware since we last seriously
thought about this (ca. 1990, IPv6) perhaps this worship of
bit-twiddling and bit-packing may be a bit (haha) like those who once
objected to anything but machine language programming because HLLs
were so inefficient!

P.S. It was from a talk I gave in Singapore to the local HackerSpace
and intended to provoke thought and discussion but not just "no, we
can't do that because that's not the way we do things."

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        -Barry Shein

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