On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Jim Fleming wrote:
Thanks for the responses to my IPv8 note.
In case people missed the point, IPv8 addresses are smaller than IPv6. Here are the sizes.
IPv4 - 32 bits IPv6 - 128 bits IPv8 - 43 bits (3+8+32)
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.
Make sure that the alternic crowd (when they get out of jail) controls one of those 8 regions. This scheme imposes an administrative hierarchy to addressing/networking which is not conducive to the kind of growth we have seen to date. Granted, there will be an administrative hierarchy no matter how you structure addresses, but I would rather that the consumer decides who is going to administer the tiers of such a hierarchy instead of leaving that decision to the protocol fairy. brad reynolds ber@cwru.edu "Faith: not wanting to know what is true." -- Friedrich Nietzsche