Re: Using IPv8 Addressing with IPv6

[Dave Liggett <dave.liggett at epic-systems.com>]

Let's be rational here.

It's obvious that this list needs to be moderated since self control doesn't
seem to be working.

Over the last couple of weeks, this list has appeared to be more like an AOL
chat forum that a professional discussion (e.g. the Re: Ambler pretends to own
.WEB again, Re: and Where is the RFC editor and Re: Tired of Waiting threads).

-- Dave


Jim Fleming wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Baker <fred at cisco.com>
> <snip>
> >
> >The continued disregard of the express desire of the community is forcing
> >us into a set of actions that we have never contemplated before. The IESG
> >has been forced to consider moderating the IETF list, whose open-ness is
> >something we have jealously guarded. Please do not force us into that.
> >Please, instead, act responsibly.
> >
>
> Fred,
>
> What types of discussions will you be censoring ?
>
> Will people be allowed to discuss how to map
> 47-bit IPv8 addresses into the 128-bit IPv6 address
> fields ?
>
> Should we just use the right-most 48 bits as follows ?
>
> 1GGG TTTT SSSS SSSS AAAA AAAA AAAA AAAA AAAA AAAA AAAA AAAA
>
> G - Galaxy
> T - TOS
> S - StarGate
> A - IPv4-like Address
>
> Can we sell NIC cards with this addressing loaded into the
> MAC address field ? Will that be OK with you and CISCO ?
>
> Jim Fleming
> Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com


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