Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!ames!oli-stl!asylum!romkey 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 Lines: 32 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 -- - john romkey romkey@asylum.uucp romkey@xx.lcs.mit.edu romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down.