Re: Why one Internet?

Pars Mutaf <pars.mutaf@gmail.com> Tue, 10 April 2012 15:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: Why one Internet?
From: Pars Mutaf <pars.mutaf@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Brian E Carpenter <
brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> 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.
>
>
I propose have a network of Internets:

Internet1
Internet2
Internet3
...
Interntet_n

In Internet 1 and 2 we may have two nodes with the same address.
The goal is to route the packet to the right Internet. I don't think it is
impossible.

Pars




> Regards
>    Brian
>
> On 2012-04-10 15:09, Lixia Zhang wrote:
> > the Internet is a means to communicate.
> > and the market drives for most effective/efficient/economical
> communication systems (there are tradeoffs between the adjectives)
> > wonder if you could help explain how your picture of "network of
> Internets" would be more effective and economical (than what we have now)
> >
> > Lixia
> >
> > On Apr 10, 2012, at 6:24 AM, Pars Mutaf wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> In my opinion, we can add one more Internet when necessary, then
> another one etc.
> >>
> >> We can have as many Internets as we need, all different.
> >>
> >> We just need a *network of Internets*.
> >>
> >> The first (current) Internet is an IPv4 Internet.
> >> The second Internet can be an IPv4 Internet too. In this case we would
> have 2 IPv4 Internets.
> >> Obviously, in this case, we would have the same addresses used by two
> different nodes in
> >> the two Internets. I think it is possible to locate the node we need. I
> am not here to discuss
> >> these details.
> >>
> >> The second Internet can be an IPv6 Internet.
> >>
> >> The second Internet can be a IPv7 Internet.
> >>
> >> The second Internet can be IPv6 but we may have a third one which is
> IPv7 etc.
> >>
> >> We just need a network of Internets, all possibly different.
> >>
> >> Pars
> >> http://content-based-science.org/
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