Re: IANA blog article

On 4 jan 2014, at 18:15, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

> Please read my words as carefully as a wrote them.
I did :-)

> There are excellent reasons why variable length IPv6 addresses would have 
> been a bad idea. That is why I separated considerations for IP layer, DNS and 
> Applications. 
>
> At the application layer, the concerns are very different. Variable length 
> identifiers are not a problem. We use them in RFC822, ASN.1, XML and JSON.
I do not see we MUST have variable length addresses in whatever protocol we 
have.

In DNS for example, we do not. Yes, lots of them, but not unlimited number of 
them.

   Patrik

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