Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:36:21 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), jhs@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, commercial@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Licensing Software Message-ID: <9609251936.AA26052@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199609251830.LAA06376@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <9609251812.AA25774@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199609251830.LAA06376@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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<<On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 11:30:50 -0700 (MST), Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> said:
> o If your topology prefix is subject to change, don't include
> it. It's just "one more damn thing" to push you over the
> allowed 32 bit limit anyway.
What ``allowed 32 bit limit''?
> o If "someone over you" changes the topology by positional
> fiat ("I am the VP and that's the way it will be"), then
BZZZT! You clearly don't understand the world works. It's more like:
``We decided that MCI is charging us too much so now we are customers
of SprintLink. Deal with it.''
> *they* can eat the cost of what they want done. It is a
> matter of physics. You can not change the way things
> operate simply because you dislike it. There are unavoidable
That's right. No amount of babbling on your part will causes
addresses to stop being Addresses and start being Names. If you want
to treat them as Names, that's fine, but don't expect any Internet
providers to route your traffic.
-GAWollman
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