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Re: IPv4 address length technical design
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:49:56 -0500
On 10/3/12, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
So the address space for IPv8 will be... </troll>
In 100 years, when we start to run out of IPv6 addresses, possibly we will have learned our lesson and done two things: (1) Stopped mixing the Host identification and the Network identification into the same bit field; instead every packet gets a source network address, destination network address, AND an additional tuple of Source host address, destination host address; residing in completely separate address spaces, with no "Netmasks", "Prefix lengths", or other comingling of network addresses and host address spaces. And (2) The new protocol will use variable-length address for the Host portion, such as used in the addresses of CLNP, with a convention of a specified length, instead of a hardwired specific limit that comes from using a permanently fixed-width field. Need more bits? No protocol definition change required.
Cheers, -- jra
-- -JH
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