On 2/15/2012 1:39 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:
The problem with variable-length addressing that, in practice, one needs
to specify a maximum length.
In some practical terms, perhaps, but there are extensibility schemes that allow the payload (addressing bits, in this case, to go on forever, in theoretical terms.
I look forward to your design for a forwarding plane based on streaming addresses :)
Does anyone really think that we'll need more than 128 bits?
You might have missed my opening qualification by refererring to practical terms
as an actual limit?
I was responding to a comment about design limitations; I wasn't recommending
infinite-length addressing.
I wasn't being as theoretical as one might assume. Although I had no direct
hands-on, some of the folks on this list did:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_%28computer_architecture%29#Variable_word_architectures
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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