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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: IPv8 Tutorial #1: Minimal IPv8 hack
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 13:55:45 -0700 (MST)
Cc: JimFleming@unety.net, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au,
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In-Reply-To: <199605050926.SAA10191@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at May 5, 96 06:56:45 pm
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> [...blah...]
> > 12  mnzhuba.anu.edu.au (150.203.205.5)  269.855 ms *  270.467 ms
> > 13  * cephron.anu.edu.au (150.203.76.15)  262.661 ms  260.911 ms     
> > 
> > This is the Legacy Internet at its best...you should be concerned...
> 
> Huh?  This is MCI who couldn't administer a pay dunny.  Doesn't matter how
> friggin' wonderful your technology is, if the telco's can't move
> your bits from A to B reliably you're screwed.

Unless you could get equivalent bits from B', B'', ... as well,
assuming all you cared about was getting the bits, not what route
they took or where they physically originated.

But "IPv8", like IPv4 and IPv6, doesn't address that.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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