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Re: IPv6 news
From: Michael.Dillon () btradianz com
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:20:03 +0100
Again, phone numbers and their portability can and should not be compared with the IP address portability issues. They're very different animals.
That's your elephant. My elephant looks different. Phone numbers and IP addresses are exactly the same. They are numbers used to identify the location to which I want to connect. They are allocated from a numbering plan with a fixed number of digits/bits. The numbering plans are running out of space. One solution being used in both telephony and IP networks, is to carve out smaller allocations (CIDR/pooling) to make the number plan last longer. Sometimes the fact that phone networks are like pink elephants, not grey, is important. Other times The grey elephant keepers watch the behavior of pink elephants to learn about elephants in general. I never suggested that one could mindlessly apply techniques from the telephony world in the IP network world. But we can understand our problems better if we compare them to the telephony world, the ATM world, and maybe even the world of Advanced Data Path Routing Techniques for Three Tier KVM Networks? http://www.tron.com/i0000032.html There are also lessons to be learned outside the world of telecoms networks by studying the distribution of market towns in ancient Mesopotamia or the crystalline lattice of the skeletons of diatoms and dinoflagellates. --Michael Dillon
Current thread:
- Re: IPv6 news, (continued)
- Re: IPv6 news Andre Oppermann (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 news Paul Jakma (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 news Andre Oppermann (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 news Paul Jakma (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 news Paul Jakma (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 news Andre Oppermann (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 news Paul Jakma (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 news Andre Oppermann (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 news Michael . Dillon (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 news Andre Oppermann (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 news Michael . Dillon (Oct 19)
- Re: IPv6 news Todd Vierling (Oct 19)
- Re: IPv6 news Michael . Dillon (Oct 19)
- Re: IPv6 news Tom Vest (Oct 19)
- Re: IPv6 news John Dupuy (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 news Michael . Dillon (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 news Jeroen Massar (Oct 17)
- Re: IPv6 news Michael . Dillon (Oct 17)
- geo-based routing [Re: IPv6 news] Pekka Savola (Oct 17)
- Re: non-provider aggregation, was: IPv6 news Iljitsch van Beijnum (Oct 19)
- Re: non-provider aggregation, was: IPv6 news Paul Jakma (Oct 19)