RE: Structuring the Root

[Jim Fleming <JimFleming at doorstep.unety.net>]

On Wednesday, April 22, 1998 12:32 PM, Roeland M.J. Meyer[SMTP:rmeyer at mhsc.com] wrote:
@At 07:22 4/22/98 -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:
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@>In the IPv8 Plan there are 2,048 slots. This is like tracking the
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@Here is a major problem I have with this, limited "slots", Why??!
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@I have never ehard, or read, any valid reason for limiting TLDs, that
@wasn't pure speculative BS, or driven by some "hidden" commercial agenda.
@___________________________________________________ 

There does not have to be any hard limit, but people
have to start someplace. At the present time, there
are almost 256 widely known TLDs in the world. To
increase that to a couple of thousand seems like a
large increase. Also, 2,000+ is twice as many categories
as Peter Roget decided to use in the 1800s. His
thesaurus has worked well for many years.

If you want the engineering reason for why IPv8 has
2,048 it is because there are 11 extra addressing bits
and 2 to the 11th power is 2,048. If you want to know
why there are only 11 extra addressing bits, I can
go into detail, but the bottom line is that this is all
that could be squeezed into the existing IPv4 header.
If you want more, use IPv6.

As for "hidden" commercial agendas...you can look
for those forever. As you look keep asking yourself who
gets paid for all of the work that goes into these debates
and who does not. I find it interesting that many of the
people involved object to people being paid when they
are assigned by their employer to work on this full-time.
In my case, that is not the case. How about you ?

-
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI