On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Cutler James R <james.cut...@consultant.com> wrote: > On Oct 3, 2012, at 6:49 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > I suggest that the DNS name space should be considered to be > an "hierarchical host address space" thus satisfying (1) and making (2) moot.
I'd suggest that too, but we'd have to throw out TCP, UDP and a good chunk of the BSD sockets API to get there. Or did you mean use DNS as it fits in the current system, which doesn't actually satisfy (1) at all since the layer 4 protocols continue to build the connection identity from the layer 3 network identity instead of the external host/service identity. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
