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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Ligatures
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 03:07:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <005a01c42806$3b722e30$a4517d50@SOMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040422104744.2c87afc2@garlic>

> generally, people don't like that. integers between 0 and 2**32 being a
> limited supply

no, they are not.  there are only some 6 billion people on the planet:

    http://opr.princeton.edu/popclock

of which a lot of those are chinese who have vicious censorship on IP feeds.
you can kick in india too, so that cuts it down a bit further.

handing out blocks to organisations who then delegate using the various
reserved nets for private networks conserves a lot of them.  i don't recall
the RFC, but it specifies them.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-22  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-19 14:45 j.krug
2004-04-21 22:53 ` rog
2004-04-21 23:00   ` boyd, rounin
2004-04-21 23:12     ` George Michaelson
2004-04-21 23:16       ` boyd, rounin
2004-04-21 23:41         ` George Michaelson
2004-04-21 23:58           ` boyd, rounin
2004-04-22  0:09             ` George Michaelson
2004-04-22  0:33               ` boyd, rounin
2004-04-22  0:47                 ` George Michaelson
2004-04-22  1:07                   ` boyd, rounin [this message]
2004-04-22  1:11                   ` Geoff Collyer
2004-04-22  1:13                     ` boyd, rounin
2004-04-22  1:21                     ` George Michaelson
2004-04-22  1:36                       ` boyd, rounin
2004-04-22  8:56       ` Dave Lukes

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