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- Network Working Group S. Crocker
- Request for Comments: 1776 CyberCash, Inc.
- Category: Informational 1 April 1995
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- The Address is the Message
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- Status of this Memo
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- This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
- does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
- this memo is unlimited.
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- Discussion
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- Declaring that the address is the message, the IPng WG has selected a
- packet format which includes 1696 bytes of address space. This
- length is a multiple of 53 and is completely compatible with ATM
- architecture. Observing that it's not what you know but who you
- know, the IPng focused on choosing an addressing scheme that makes it
- possible to talk to everyone while dispensing with the irrelevant
- overhead of actually having to say anything.
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- Security experts hailed this as a major breakthrough. With no
- content left in the packets, all questions of confidentiality and
- integrity are moot. Intelligence and law enforcement agencies
- immediately refocused their efforts to detect who's talking to whom,
- and are silently thankful they can avoid divisive public debate about
- key escrow, export control and related matters.
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- Although the IPng WG declared there should be more than enough
- address space for everyone, service providers immediately began vying
- for reserved portions of the address space.
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- Security Considerations
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- Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
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- Crocker [Page 1]
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- RFC 1776 The Address is the Message 1 April 1995
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- Author's Address
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- Steve Crocker
- CyberCash, Inc.
- 2086 Hunters Crest Way
- Vienna, VA 22181
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- Phone: +1 703 620 1222
- EMail: crocker@cybercash.com
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- Crocker [Page 2]
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