RE: [apnic-talk] "IPv8"
On Monday, May 11, 1998 5:28 PM, Fred Baker[SMTP:fred at cisco dot com] wrote:
@At 10:48 AM -0500 5/11/98, Jim Fleming wrote:
@>CISCO is very influential in the APNIC region as well as on the IETF.
@>Several people from CISCO have made disparaging comments about IPv8.
@
@It is common for people to say what they think on various subjects. You do
@it as well. I would first suggest that their opinion is not automatically
@Cisco or APNIC's opinion any more than your opinion is automatically that
@of your employer or the forum in which you speak. I would further suggest
@that you take it up privately with the people you have a concern with. It's
@a free world, and one of the inalienable rights of any human being is the
@right to have and to express his or her opinion.
@
Yes...one of the hallmarks of the IPv8 Internet will be
an emphasis on free speech and truely open decision-making.
I am all for that. Also, another emphasis will be on ample
resources and the distributed access and management
of those resources. People will not have to sign loyalty
oaths to participate. They just have to volunteer to help
in the true spirit of the Internet.
@And if you want it implemented, I would suggest that you post an internet
@draft describing it, and demonstrate the existence of a marketplace that is
@willing to pay for its implementation. Absent rubber-meets-road
@specifications and marketing data, if I were you I wouldn't feel badly if
@people didn't implement it. It is, after all, a free world, in which people
@put their money where they see their needs and interests met.
@
We do not have to do that. The most important aspect of IPv8
is the Address Management Plan. That is pretty well understood.
The 43 bit IPv8 addresses fit nicely on the far right of the 128 bit
IPv6 address fields. Therefore, IPv6 can be used as a transport
for the interim.
The IPv8 protocol is very simple and similar to IPv4. When it is
needed as an optimization for IPv6, people can freely use it.
At this stage of the game, the focus is on getting the resources
into people's hands. As most people know, the IPv8 Plan starts
by focusing on the top 2,048 TLDs in use in the world. Unlike
some systems, we do not create these TLDs, we track them.
This is more like a consumer reports metod. Here is a list.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt
As countries and companies get more involved in Internet Governance
they can help to manage the IPv8 address space which is evenly
distributed and has no central controller. It will be up to the people
on Planet Earth to make it work. I have confident they will, once the
insiders give them a chance. The insiders currently try to hold the
people back...why ?
-
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.net
IPv8 - Designed for the Rest of the Human Race
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