Re: Why one Internet?

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 10 April 2012 14:31 UTC

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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:31:04 +0100
From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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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

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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