Re: Send-n, rat holes and real issues

Otmar Lendl wrote:

> We (including speermint) have been though that discussion already 
> a few times. A BGP-like protocol for numbers (or better: prefixes)
> just won't scale.

Why would DNS scale any better?

> One part of what makes BGP work for IP routing is the aggregation
> properties of IP addresses: large blocks are given to ISPs, which give
> out smaller blocks to enterprises, or just individual addresses to
> end-users.

Lets be clear here, we're not talking about routing, just prefixes and
there is a HUGE difference because there is much less problems with
security implications at the very least.

> The rest of the world doesn't care how this ISPs handed out addresses, a
> single entry in the global routing table suffices.

Again, you are confusing things here between prefixes and routing, we're
not talking about routing just prefix lengths, the rest of your comments
are along the same line.

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Best regards,
 Duane