[governance] Uni.X to Uni.X Networking Circa 2005

[Jim Fleming]

There are still plenty of 32 bit addresses available from people who have
huge reserves.
Despite that, the $60 Uni.X WIFI routers can be reprogrammed to not only
extend
addressing but start to improve service. The 10 bit length field is one area
that can be
addressed sooner rather than later. If packets migrate to sizes less than
1024 bytes
and fragmentation is removed from the code bloat research stacks, then
premium
transport services can emerge that promise end-to-end transport of
unfragmented 1K
packets. If one tosses in the re-worked TTL (hop-count) field with a maximum
of 7
hops domestic or 15 international, then that premium service starts to have
more and
more appeal, especially for real-time applications such as gamers and voice.

Before removing the code bloat for fragmentation, there are interim ways
that have been
tested to encode a substantial number of extended address bits into the
largely unused
16 bit ID field. Using the left-most 14 bits, two 7 bit extended address bit
fields can be
encoded and they pass end-to-end on the old slow legacy transports. The two
4 bit
extended address bits in the old TOS field also pass end-to-end and the 7+4
results
in 11 bits or 2,048 network address spaces equal to the one address space
used for
decades without depletion. One could imagine opening up a new equivalent
space each
year for the next 2,047 years, or giving an equivalent space to 2,047 other
digital islands
who do not have to grow their 160 bit packet headers, which reduces their
performance
and consumes expensive bandwidth.

One of the capabilities of the $60 Uni.X WIFI routers that partly comes from
the NAT
arena, is the ability to quickly add another 160 bit legacy routing header
in front of any
header that is know to be crossing an out-dated part of the legacy network.
The destination
address prefix can be automatically used to know when to add the transparent
routing
header. As networks improve in performance and as fragmentation falls by the
wayside
the pure non-fragmented headers can then be sent. With the dual-firewall
arrangement:

PSTN-------PE $60 WIFI Firewall--------CE $60 WIFI Firewall-------PC

the CE can move to pure Uni.X to Uni.X addressing and let the PE sort it
out, if the
packet is not for the PE device. If the NOP protocol is used the 1 to 3 byte
packets can
be reworked into packets with the full-blown code bloat features with of
course the
hit in performance.

With several of the address fields in the 64 bit address fixed for
transition purposes,
two A records in the DNS can be used, because one of the A records will have
a
distinct signature that separates it from the other A record. An alternative
is to use the
low bit of the DNS TTL value to encode a tag for the A records so that even
and odd
A records can be sent to construct the 64-bit address values. Unenlightened
people
looking at the A records will assume they are two different 32-bit addresses
and will not
likely notice the one bit difference in the TTL values. With the U.S. DOD
and THE
Big Lie Society now on a mission to force other protocol technology down
your throats
from the end of their guns, it is good to have a plan that passes under
their radar.
As soon as WIMAX is more available with a 10 mile radius, the need for CE
devices
with more address space will increase.

It is unfortunate that your governance forums will be dominated by U.S. DOD
operatives
under the direction of THE Big Lie Society. You will be forced, at gun-point
if needed, to
network the way they want and to worship (and buy) their creations. At this
point in time,
it is not YET illegal in the U.S. to write Uni.X code, at least for your own
devices. There
are members of THE Big Lie Society that suggested that laws be passed
preventing NAT
hardware from being built. They will stop at absolutely nothing to achieve
their agenda.
Your only hope will be to nod approval at everything they dictate and wonder
if there are
people out there with $60 WIFI Uni.X nodes, having fun programming them and
connecting
to each other. Maybe the knowledge that some people are headed in a
different direction
a long long way from THE Big Lie Society will help you tolerate the bind, no
pun intended,
THE Big Lie Society will place you in for the next few decades.

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