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Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public


From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:03:47 -0500 (EST)


Time comes at you fast :-)

The POSIX committee has officially adopted 64-bit time_t as a requirement in the working draft of IEEE Std. 1003.1-202x and ISO/IEC 9945.

One thing to cross off my list. And I was looking forward to all the time machines crashing into the University of California Berkeley quad on
03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.


On Wed, 17 Nov 2021, Sean Donelan wrote:
Other problems which will occur sooner:

1. Unix 32-bit time_t overflow.
2. North American Numbering Plan runs out of +1 zone phone numbers
3. IPv6 deployed and working everywhere/everything on the Internet
4. Analog AM and FM radio broadcasting deprecated (see digital DAB/DRM/HD)
5. Heat death of the universe


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