IPv8 < IPv6

Thu Nov 6 05:35:50 UTC 1997

  And what I meant was that they should be.  And if they don't want
  to, they should be forced.

  -a

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (jra at scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us):
> On Wed, Nov 05, 1997 at 08:45:29PM -0500, Alan Hannan wrote:
> >   Yes, and when my mother didn't make me go to bed at night, I was
> >   rather cranky, and tardy in my multiplication tables and spelling
> >   exercises the next day.
> 
> You know, Alan... I could'a sworn I wrote something that equates to
> "Yeah, Jim, but that's not what peopler _are doing_."
> 
> <looks>
> 
> Yep, that's what I wrote.
> 
> >   That we can impose strict hierarchy on address allocations (like
> >   our friends at RIPE, APNIC, and InterNIC have done) is part of the
> >   reason our networking system has assumed a somewhat manageable
> >   growth wrt addressnig.
> > 
> >   Big Brother impositions are fine, if the benevolent dictatorship
> >   really is altruistic. (in community space allocation)
> 
> Any particular reason you're dragging in Big Bother, when what I cited
> was _the market_?
> 
> >   DISCLAIMER -- THIS IS NOT TO IMPLY THAT I SUPPORT, CONDONE, OR
> >                 AGREE WITH JIM FLEMING.  RATHER I HARBOR FEARS THAT
> > 		HE FLIRTS WITH DANGEROUS CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES, AND
> > 		PERCEIVES THE WORLD IN A MANNER UNLIKE ANY OF SANE
> > 		MIND AND BODY.
> 
> And what are _you_ smoking?
> 
> > Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (jra at scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us):
> > > On Thu, Nov 06, 1997 at 10:16:56AM -0600, Jim Fleming wrote:
> > > > There is a natural routing hierarchy with IPv8
> > > > addressing....8 regions, 256 distribution centers
> > > > in each region and full 32 bit Internets from there.
> > > > IPv8 addresses can fit inside the IPv6 address fields.
> > > 
> > > The problem here, as I see it, is that this _imposes_ a hierarchical
> > > structure onto the physical design on the net, which has not been the
> > > observed pattern of growth.
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Sho nuff.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> -- 
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