[AusNOG] My Predictions for the ISP Industry

[Mark Delany]

On 14Mar12, Mark Newton allegedly wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 03:10:30PM +1000, Terry Sweetser wrote:
> 
>  > On 14/03/12 12:17, Noel Butler wrote:
>  > > facebook (god help them)
>  > 
>  > https://www.v6.facebook.com/
> 
> Which is, of course, 2620:0:1cfe:face:b00c::3
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^
> 
> I prefer to put dead:beef:c00f:ee into my addresses.

Anyone remember the suggestion to make v6 addresses be variable length
strings?

Route my packet to com.facebook.www please.

Or route my packet to org.dotat.atdot at newton where org.dotat.atdot decides
what to do with anything following its own prefix.

Crazy? Maybe. I do note however that both "com.facebook.www" and
"org.dotat.atdot" fit in the same space as a v6 address and present a
self-encoded CIDR-like address.


Mark.