10 Oct
2019
10 Oct
'19
12:12 a.m.
On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 4:30 PM John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
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!
Nope. You can summarize it as "it doesn't scale", which is what has killed endless numbers of superficially plausible bad ideas.
And Barry's been around long enough to know this. What's up Barry? What's the meta-argument you're trying to make here 'cause "bits is bits" is about as smart as telling a chef that "food is food." Regards, Bill -- William Herrin bill@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/