On 2023-05-12 at 16:52:38 UTC-0400 (Fri, 12 May 2023 13:52:38 -0700)
Brandon Long via mailop <bl...@google.com>
is rumored to have said:
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 8:54 AM Bill Cole via mailop
<mailop@mailop.org>
wrote:
On 2023-05-12 at 09:40:14 UTC-0400 (Fri, 12 May 2023 13:40:14 +0000)
Paul Gregg via mailop <pgregg+mai...@pgregg.com>
is rumored to have said:
I suspect with verp/bounce addressing widely in use now, 64 octets
just
isn't enough these days.
Hogwash. 64 mail-safe octets is adequate for every domain to give a
unique printable(!) deliverable local-part to every elementary
particle
in the universe. It's a namespace adequate for ANYTHING
And yet IP6 went with 128 for some reason...
Are you conflating bits with mail-safe octets (~6 bits each)? There are
about 400 bits of information available in the 512-bit container of a
64-character local-part.
Each domain has a namespace for sender local parts that is 3 times as
large (bitwise) as the whole human race has for IPv6 addresses.
as if there are other concerns
than being able to compress
the information into as few bits as possible.
No need to programmatically compress data to use the space efficiently,
just be good at naming.
--
Bill Cole
b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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