[governance] Uni.X to Uni.X .NETworking - 18 Prefix and 14 Suffix

[Jim Fleming]

Despite the merits of dividing 32 new address bits into half Prefix and half
Suffix
that may not fall on a natural boundary. As shown below, a more natural
arrangement
would be 18 new address bits for the Prefix and 14 new address bits for the
Suffix.
>From a governance point of view, that is 262,144 regimes with full 32-bit
address spaces.
At some point, people may come up with a *fair way* to distribute resources
with that
many chances or attempts. If 2,048 new regimes emerge right away when WIMAX
arrives, that will still be a very small number of the total potential
number of regimes.

2 - Fixed 01
2 - Fixed 01
4 - Now
3 - Fixed 000
7 - Now
<<<< 32-bits >>>>
1 - Fixed 0
2 - Fixed 11
6 - Fixed 000000
1 - Fixed 0
1 - Fixed 1
3 - Now

The original hope was that the ".NET Community" would be the natural group
to lead
the way in the transition from 32-bits to 64-bits. As people now see, the
.NET Community
does not really exist. The .NET Community has no voice, has no collective
vote, has little
if any input into how the .NET name-space is governed. That may change when
the
peer-to-peer DNS eventually evolves.

Speaking of DNS, the above bit layout could be handled via two DNS A records
with
the Prefix and Suffix in the same A record. If three A records are used,
then a vary
distinctive signature can be encoded to ensure the Prefix is easy to detect
with 14 zeros
on the right. A 14 bit Suffix can be encoded with 18 zeros on the left. Two
64-bit
addresses can of course be stored in an AAAA record.

There is of course another school of thought which is that DNS is not really
needed
as future applications develop their own name-spaces and "communities".

The Uni.X community still evolves based on rough consensus and working code.
It
is really amazing that people who now claim to be governing the .NET appear
to have
little or no technical background. Also, it is interesting to see that those
who claim to
have technical experience did not come from the Uni.X community, they mostly
came
from U.S. Government DOD-funded projects, other government pork projects and
of course the legal community who have studied all of the cash-flows and
inserted
themselves in all of the choke points, while warning people of that very
thing happening.
The hypocrisy is breath-taking.

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