On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 8:54 AM Bill Cole via mailop <mailop@mailop.org>
wrote:

> On 2023-05-12 at 09:40:14 UTC-0400 (Fri, 12 May 2023 13:40:14 +0000)
> Paul Gregg via mailop <pgregg+mai...@pgregg.com>
> is rumored to have said:
>
> > I suspect with verp/bounce addressing widely in use now, 64 octets
> > just
> > isn't enough these days.
>
> Hogwash. 64 mail-safe octets is adequate for every domain to give a
> unique printable(!) deliverable local-part to every elementary particle
> in the universe. It's a namespace adequate for ANYTHING
>

And yet IP6 went with 128 for some reason... as if there are other concerns
than being able to compress
the information into as few bits as possible.

Brandon
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