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Re: Variable length internet addresses in TCP/IP: history

2012-02-15 15:47:35


On 2/15/2012 1:39 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:
The problem with variable-length addressing that, in practice, one needs
to specify a maximum length.

In some practical terms, perhaps, but there are extensibility schemes that 
allow the payload (addressing bits, in this case, to go on forever, in 
theoretical terms.

I look forward to your design for a forwarding plane based on streaming 
addresses :)

Does anyone really think that we'll need more than 128 bits?


You might have missed my opening qualification by refererring to practical terms as an actual limit?

I was responding to a comment about design limitations; I wasn't recommending infinite-length addressing.

I wasn't being as theoretical as one might assume. Although I had no direct hands-on, some of the folks on this list did:


<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_%28computer_architecture%29#Variable_word_architectures


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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
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