Re: worse than IPv6 Pain Experiment

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 4:30 PM John R. Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:
> > Can I summarize the current round of objections to my admittedly
> > off-beat proposal (use basically URLs rather than IP addresses in IP
> > packet src/dest) as:
> >
> >  We can't do that! It would require changing something!
>
> Nope.  You can summarize it as "it doesn't scale", which is what has
> killed endless numbers of superficially plausible bad ideas.

And Barry's been around long enough to know this. What's up Barry? What's
the meta-argument you're trying to make here 'cause "bits is bits" is about
as smart as telling a chef that "food is food."

Regards,
Bill



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