[ih] Some Questions over IPv4 Ownership

[Vint Cerf]

the guys at stanford have invented an "open flow" router that works this way.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Ben Clifford <benc at hawaga.org.uk> wrote:
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>> Pure serendipity. The basic mechanism used (the bit-mask) allowed
>> non-continguous masks as a natural consequence of the mechanism; we would
>> have had to specifically disallow them, and we didn't bother to. I seem to
>> recall we thought we'd leave them in, and see if people found some good use
>> for them.
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> did anyone find a good use for them?
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