Fw: "...namespace expansion is a happening reality..."

["Jim Fleming" <jfleming at anet.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Fleming" <jfleming at anet.com>
To: "Joe Baptista" <baptista at dot-god.com>
Cc: "love at cptech. org" <love at cptech.org>; "mress at essential. org" <mress at essential.org>; "Judith Oppenheimer"
<joppenheimer at icbtollfree.com>; "Joanna Lane" <jo-uk at rcn.com>; <terastra at terabytz.co.nz>; "karl at cavebear. com" <karl at cavebear.com>;
"andy at ccc. de" <andy at ccc.de>; <wsl at cerebalaw.com>; <richard at vrx.net>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: "...namespace expansion is a happening reality..."


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Baptista" <baptista at dot-god.com>
>
> > > that people and companies are supported in the .ARPA Multi-Level-Marketing (MLM)
> > > structure.
> >
> > i agree - thats another monster waiting to happen.  .arpa will be the last
> > straw.
> >
>
> It might be the "first straw"....with 2,048 TLD Managers, each can take a piece
> of the IN-ADDR.ARPA name space and manage it. The easiest way to do that
> is to have 8 TLD Managers each take a block. That maps all 256 blocks (used
> or not) to the TLD Managers because 256x8=2048
>
> As the Manager of the .GOD TLD, you would then end up being one of 8 Managers
> for a delegation of IN-ADDR.ARPA in the new 128-bit DNS servers. You would
> delegate (sell, lease, etc.) the blocks to the ISPs, etc. You can easily figure out which
> block 7:186 lands in....by considering it to be an 11 bit number (0-2047) and dividing
> by 8....the conversion is 7x256=1792 plus 186 equals...1978....divided by 8 is...247.25
>
> You would help manage.....247.IN-ADDR.ARPA....
>
> 7:186     GOD
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
> 240-255/8       IANA - Reserved                         Sep 81
>
>
> Jim Fleming
> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt
>


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