On Mar 7, 2011, at 8:48 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > This has been thought of before, discussed and rejected.
But has this: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-terrell-math-quant-ternary-logic-of-binary-sys-12.txt ? Please read and explain *exactly* why it doesn't work... W > > In message <[email protected]>, Vadim Antonov > writes > : >> I'm wondering (and that shows that I have nothing better to do at 3:30am >> on Monday...) how many people around here realize that the plain old >> IPv4 - as widely implemented and specified in standard RFCs can be >> easily used to connect pretty much arbitrary number (arbitrary means >>> 2^256) of computers WITHOUT NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION. Yes, you hear >> me right. >> >> And, no, it does not require any changes any in the global routing >> infrastructure - as implemented now, and most OS kernels (those which >> aren't broken-as-designed, grin) would do the trick just fine. None of >> that dual-stack stupidity, and, of course, no chicken-and-egg problem if >> the servers and gateways can be made to respect really old and >> well-established standards. >> >> DNS and most applications would need some (fairly trivial) updating, >> though, to work properly with the extended addressing; and sysadmins >> would need to do tweaks in their configs since some mythology-driven >> "security" can get in the way. But they don't have to do that en mass >> and all at once. >> >> The most obvious solution to the non-problem of address space shortage >> is the hardest to notice, ain't it? >> >> --vadim >> >> P.S. Hfr YFEE gb ebhgr orgjrra cevingr nqqerff fcnprf bire choyvpnyyl >> ebhgrq fcnpr, Yhxr. Guvax bs cevingr nqqerff ovgf nf n evtug-fvqr >> rkgrafvba gb gur sbhe-bpgrg choyvp nqqerff. >> >> P.P.S. Gb rkgraq shegure, nygreangr gjb qvfgvapg cevingr nqqerff fcnprf, >> nf znal gvzrf nf lbh pna svg vagb gur urnqre. >> >> > -- > Mark Andrews, ISC > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [email protected] W PS: :-) <doh! ROT13 fails to be interesting on punctuation.... >
