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Re: worse than IPv6 Pain Experiment
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 9 Oct 2019 19:30:05 -0400
Can I summarize the current round of objections to my admittedly off-beat proposal (use basically URLs rather than IP addresses in IP packet src/dest) as: We can't do that! It would require changing something!
Nope. You can summarize it as "it doesn't scale", which is what has killed endless numbers of superficially plausible bad ideas.
Like I said, if there were a few thousand URLs it could work, but with hundreds of millions or billions, not a chance. Numbers with five zeros and numbers with nine zeros are not the same.
But while we're proposing bad ideas, how about this one: we pull the domain name out of the URL and flip it around and put it at the front, so instead of https://badidea.com/crud we have "com.badidea/https://crud." Now we can do hierarchical routing, starting with the "com" and then "com.badidea", shoving the DNS resolution into the router.
There's only a few thousand top level domains, so routers should he able to handle this with no problem. Whaddaya think?
Regards, John Levine, johnl () taugh com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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- Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment, (continued)
- Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment Owen DeLong (Oct 08)
- Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment bzs (Oct 09)
- Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment Owen DeLong (Oct 09)
- Re: worse than IPv6 Pain Experiment John Levine (Oct 09)
- Re: worse than IPv6 Pain Experiment bzs (Oct 09)
- Re: worse than IPv6 Pain Experiment Owen DeLong (Oct 09)
- Re: worse than IPv6 Pain Experiment Matt Harris (Oct 09)
- Re: worse than IPv6 Pain Experiment Owen DeLong (Oct 09)
- Re: worse than IPv6 Pain Experiment Masataka Ohta (Oct 09)
- Re: worse than IPv6 Pain Experiment Valdis Klētnieks (Oct 09)
- Re: worse than IPv6 Pain Experiment John R. Levine (Oct 09)
- Re: worse than IPv6 Pain Experiment William Herrin (Oct 09)
- Re: worse than IPv6 Pain Experiment bzs (Oct 10)
- Re: worse than IPv6 Pain Experiment Masataka Ohta (Oct 09)
- Re: worse than IPv6 Pain Experiment Tony Finch (Oct 10)
- RE: worse than IPv6 Pain Experiment Kevin Menzel (Oct 10)
- Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment bzs (Oct 05)
- Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment Matt Palmer (Oct 05)
- Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment bzs (Oct 06)
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