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Re: Why one Internet?

Lixia Zhang <lixia@cs.ucla.edu> Tue, 10 April 2012 15:12 UTC

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Hi Brian, 

I was not questioning about connectivity (or divide Internet).
I was just looking for an explanation of how the proposal could be MORE effective *and* more economical.

Lixia

On Apr 10, 2012, at 7:31 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> Lixia,
> 
> The original note says "I think it is possible to locate the node we need."
> 
> So, the idea is apparently not to divide the Internet - it is simply to deal
> with the fact that addresses would be ambiguous. Since we have 15 years
> experience of the pain caused by ambiguous addresses, and a perfectly good
> 128 bit address space that avoids any need for ambiguous addresses, I don't
> see the point. It isn't even worth sending the code.
> 
> Pars,
> 
> Your original note also says "I am not here to discuss these details." Sorry,
> but in the IETF it's *exactly* the details that we must discuss; that's our
> job. We've been doing so since 1992 to my personal knowledge.
> 
> Regards
>   Brian

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