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RE: Wasted space

From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:02:02 -0700


So you trade dotted quad notation for a base36 number? That defeats the purpose of DNS. Your statement is meaningless, 
as your local dictionary will show. Randy is right, DNS is finite as well, albeit, constrained semantically, rather 
than mathematically.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
Austin Schutz
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 4:48 PM
To: Randy Bush
Cc: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: Wasted space

your point?


      It would be possible to assign names to every atom in the 
universe and
still have some left over. Maybe not infinite but close enough :-)

      Tex

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