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[Jim Fleming]

On Thursday, June 26, 1997 1:07 PM, Jeff Williams[SMTP:jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com] wrote:
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@ > 
@ > IPv8 will not help you...yet. Besides, IF (a big IF) you
@ > are able to obtain some IPv4 addresses, you will be
@ > able to upgrade those to IPv8 addresses when the time
@ > comes.
@ 
@   Well I had already figured that IPv4 addresses would
@ be upgradable.  It seems to me that maybe IPV6 space
@ should not be a problem to get.  Comments?

IPv6 has 128 bit addresses. They are overkill.

There is already a mess, because an address space
that large encourages people to be wasteful and makes
it attractive to overload addresses with service attributes
much like the multicasting mess.

IPv8 addresses only have 43 bits, but those bits were
carefully engineered and they fit into the same size and
shape header as IPv4, unlike IPv6 which has a totally
different header design.

The 43 bit IPv8 addresses will of course fit inside
the 128 bit IPv6 addresses if that is ever useful.
The 43 bits also fit into 64 bit computer architectures
and with object-oriented systems based on platforms
and not protocols, this becomes important.

Balance is important in all design...

--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation