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Hi, Bj”rn!

26 Jun 06 04:06, Bj”rn Felten said to Alex Shakhaylo:

 AS>> Well. So why our IC's (whoever they are) ignore this question.

 BF>    Then you've obviously missed a zillion of comments. The zone idea
 BF> was a bad idea from day one. It had absolutely no technical reason,
 BF> only political.

It well may be. But now we have zones, and we we have politic, and we
know they both will never diappear. And which is bad we know that
existing administrative scheme is impotent to move forward.

 BF> FTN has always had the possibility to house at least
 BF> 32.000 nets with 32.000 nodes in each -- and that's with sloppy
 BF> programmers that cannot deal with words but only with signed integers.

 BF>    That's about as many possible node numbers as the number of
 BF> possible IP numbers on the internet, so there never was any technical
 BF> need for a third dimension, aka zone numbers.

 BF>    Now that we can easily scrap the entire concept of zone numbers,
 BF> surely you can understand that we don't want to introduce a NEW zone?

The reason in purely political (new possibilities) and not technical.

Bye, Sinc, Alex

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