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. 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) -alan 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. Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (jra@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.
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