On Aug 10, 2012, at 10:22 AM, "Andrew G. Malis" <agmalis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Another alternative is self-describing variable-length addresses, > again do it once and we'll never have to worry about it again. Heretic! That's OSI speak! Why do you hate the Internet you ISO/ITU lackey?!? </flashback> Yeah, variable-length addresses would have been nice. There was even working code. Maybe next IPng. Regards, -drc