Originally posted by snoopy369
I'm also quite curious ... how does this physically work ??? ICANN controls the root DNS servers, IIRC, so that means if Europe wants to take over (their own) internet, they'd just start some DNS servers that don't link back to ICANN, and suggest/require that European servers don't send ICANN their DNS entries??
I have a feeling that this will end up being a national-level-control situation, where ICANN controls American servers, EUCANN controls European ones, CCANN controls Chinese servers, etc., and little tiny countries like Nigeria get to pick who they team up with. The only problem, is that there are only 256 base IP addresses (ie 0.X.X.X, 1.X.X.X, ... 255.X.X.X), so they'll have to somehow split these up ... probably America gets over 100, Europe gets 70-100, China gets a small amount, etc. ...
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I wonder if it's possible that instead of splitting up the 1.X.X.X addresses, that they'll add a fifth level:
(US).X.X.X.X
(EU).X.X.X.X
(CH).X.X.X.X
etc... obviously numbers instead of letters, say 0 = UN, 10=US, 80=EU, 150=CHina, etc. ... separating the numbers by a lot so as to have room for more US numbers later on.
There's no particular reason we use sets of 4 0-255 in IP addresses ... and we'll eventually need to increase the number anyway ...
The only issue is that all current software would have to be set up to accept the fifth digit. It's quite possible that a workaround could be done at the DNS level temporarily, for a few years, until we used up all of the available 255.255.255.255 ip addys ...
I'm also quite curious ... how does this physically work ??? ICANN controls the root DNS servers, IIRC, so that means if Europe wants to take over (their own) internet, they'd just start some DNS servers that don't link back to ICANN, and suggest/require that European servers don't send ICANN their DNS entries??
I have a feeling that this will end up being a national-level-control situation, where ICANN controls American servers, EUCANN controls European ones, CCANN controls Chinese servers, etc., and little tiny countries like Nigeria get to pick who they team up with. The only problem, is that there are only 256 base IP addresses (ie 0.X.X.X, 1.X.X.X, ... 255.X.X.X), so they'll have to somehow split these up ... probably America gets over 100, Europe gets 70-100, China gets a small amount, etc. ...
Edit:
I wonder if it's possible that instead of splitting up the 1.X.X.X addresses, that they'll add a fifth level:
(US).X.X.X.X
(EU).X.X.X.X
(CH).X.X.X.X
etc... obviously numbers instead of letters, say 0 = UN, 10=US, 80=EU, 150=CHina, etc. ... separating the numbers by a lot so as to have room for more US numbers later on.
There's no particular reason we use sets of 4 0-255 in IP addresses ... and we'll eventually need to increase the number anyway ...
The only issue is that all current software would have to be set up to accept the fifth digit. It's quite possible that a workaround could be done at the DNS level temporarily, for a few years, until we used up all of the available 255.255.255.255 ip addys ...
so you type in apolyton.net and your dns server either tells you the ip, or goes up the chain to the next dns server above it(and so on until you get to the root servers) to say this is the IP address you want which is 67.15.24.46 according to the dns server in the other room from me.
from here you then use address resolution protocol to actually find where that IP address is. This is done independently of the root servers.
As to the increased IP range, IPv6 will take care of that, but it will be some time before it is in place.
anyone can set up their own dns servers so even those tiny countries can set up their own directory if they want.
Now with different directories means that while the US/EU servers will point you to apolyton if you want apolyton.net, Nigeria will most likely point you to a spyware/spam/popups page that isn't apolyton.net.
I don't know how that will affect ARP if a computer in China(for example), also claims to be 67.15.24.46.
[edit] ok arp works on a segment basis, and to connect between these segments you need the proper routing table, but each segment does arp, so depending on which routing table you use you go to either or.[/edit]
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