Thank you so much for providing a tutorial to the community that created
the technology about which you are lecturing. After 30 years of developing
this stuff, I'm sure we never understood its nature nearly so well as you
have now made us able.
d/
At 02:48 PM 7/6/2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>Ned writes:
> > Nor did I say you could. The point is that
> > how IP addresses are used varies.
>
>My point is that you want to uniquely identify every machine in the world
>using
>IP, then every machine must have a unique IP address. If you are using names
>instead of IP addresses, and you still want to uniquely identify every machine
>in the world, then every machine must have a unique name.
>
> > Why is this so hard for you to understand?
>
>I understand it perfectly. What I am illustrating is how poorly people
>understand the real problems, how careless they are when reading, and how
>readily they confuse one problem with another. This is why fixed address
>spaces
>will be exhausted, no matter how large they are, and this is why TLD
>management
>will continue to be a mess, no matter what changes are made.
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