Re: IPv4 address length technical design

[Tony Finch <dot () dotat at>]

Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> Once host identifiers are no longer dependent on or related to topology,
> there's no reason a reasonable fixed-length cannot suffice.

Host identities should be cryptographic hashes of public keys, so you have
to support algorithm agility, which probably implies variable length.

Tony.
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