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From: romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us (John Romkey)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: ToasterNet (was Re: Running out of Internet addresses?)
Message-ID: <1010@asylum.sf.ca.us>
Date: 30 Nov 88 04:16:38 GMT
References: <8811281821.AA00300@bel.isi.edu> <207@logicon.arpa>
Reply-To: romkey@asylum.UUCP (John Romkey)
Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA
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In article <207@logicon.arpa> Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey) writes:
>With 4.2 million network numbers, 115 new network numbers could be
>registered every DAY, and it would still take 100 years to exhaust
>them all.  It seems that there really isn't a problem in the
>foreseeable future.

Ah, they said that about addresses spaces so many times...it is to
cry.

I want to see a protocol address space large enough to handle a node
in each household appliance, each piece of electronic equipment, and
several extras per household, office and vehicle. Traffic lights on
the Internet. Stray toasters. And enough addresses left over to
scatter hosts across the inner solar system.

I'm not very worried about IP running out of addresses here because
I'm pretty sure that by the time we start doing all this we'll have
learned enough new things about protocols and the devices we're
communicating with that we'll have scrapped TCP/IP and gone on to new
horizons. Same thing goes for ISO (which there is not a whole lot of
'practical experience' in, anyway).

I have a small piece of internet in my dining room. It's not connected
to the rest of the world yet (give me another few months), but soon it
will spread through the rest of the house. And you can buy a toaster
with a microprocessor in it from Sears. No ethernet, yet.
				- john
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