On Oct 3, 2012, at 6:49 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/3/12, Jay Ashworth <j...@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 >
I suggest that the DNS name space should be considered to be an "hierarchical host address space" thus satisfying (1) and making (2) moot.