Re: ITU-T Dubai Meeting and IPv15

David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> Fri, 10 August 2012 17:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: ITU-T Dubai Meeting and IPv15
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
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On Aug 10, 2012, at 10:22 AM, "Andrew G. Malis" <agmalis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another alternative is self-describing variable-length addresses,
> again do it once and we'll never have to worry about it again.

Heretic!  That's OSI speak!  Why do you hate the Internet you ISO/ITU lackey?!?

</flashback>

Yeah, variable-length addresses would have been nice. There was even working code. Maybe next IPng.

Regards,
-drc