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My thought process isn't as terrestrially constrained...qualitatively science fiction by today's measure, to be frank. I was thinking more along the lines of a
by metaphor 11y ago
My thought process isn't as terrestrially constrained...qualitatively science fiction by today's measure, to be frank.
I was thinking more along the lines of an architecture adopted today which survives many millennia into the future that accounts for exponential human population growth on a galactic scale, isn't limited by the natural resources of this planet, where increment() will be the only pragmatic address assignment operation, meaningful archaeologic insight might be attained by discovering a microscopic 128-bit invariant, and so on.
- msbarnett 11y agoI mean, yes, IPv6 fails the improbable science-fiction wish-list test, for any number of reasons beyond address space path MTU discovery algorithms aren't going to be efficient when packet transit times are measured in decades, for one thing