Re: IPv4 address shortage? Really?

[Warren Kumari <warren () kumari net>]

On Mar 7, 2011, at 8:48 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:

> This has been thought of before, discussed and rejected.

But has this: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-terrell-math-quant-ternary-logic-of-binary-sys-12.txt ?

Please read and explain *exactly* why it doesn't work...

W



> In message <1299498200.29652.40.camel () kotti kotovnik com>, Vadim Antonov writes
> :
> > I'm wondering (and that shows that I have nothing better to do at 3:30am
> > on Monday...) how many people around here realize that the plain old
> > IPv4 - as widely implemented and specified in standard RFCs can be
> > easily used to connect pretty much arbitrary number (arbitrary means
> > > 2^256) of computers WITHOUT NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION.  Yes, you hear
> > me right.
> >
> > And, no, it does not require any changes any in the global routing
> > infrastructure - as implemented now, and most OS kernels (those which
> > aren't broken-as-designed, grin) would do the trick just fine.  None of
> > that dual-stack stupidity, and, of course, no chicken-and-egg problem if
> > the servers and gateways can be made to respect really old and
> > well-established standards.
> >
> > DNS and most applications would need some (fairly trivial) updating,
> > though, to work properly with the extended addressing; and sysadmins
> > would need to do tweaks in their configs since some mythology-driven
> > "security" can get in the way.  But they don't have to do that en mass
> > and all at once.
> >
> > The most obvious solution to the non-problem of address space shortage
> > is the hardest to notice, ain't it?
> >
> > --vadim
> >
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> > rkgrafvba gb gur sbhe-bpgrg choyvp nqqerff.
> >
> > P.P.S. Gb rkgraq shegure, nygreangr gjb qvfgvapg cevingr nqqerff fcnprf,
> > nf znal gvzrf nf lbh pna svg vagb gur urnqre.
> -- 
> Mark Andrews, ISC
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W

PS: :-)   <doh! ROT13 fails to be interesting on punctuation.... >