From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 25 12:37:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA14621 for current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:37:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA14565; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:37:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA26052; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:36:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:36:21 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9609251936.AA26052@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Terry Lambert Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), jhs@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, commercial@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Licensing Software In-Reply-To: <199609251830.LAA06376@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <9609251812.AA25774@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199609251830.LAA06376@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < 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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick