Comments on: High-speed academic networks to merge

Internet2 and National LambdaRail plan to combine their efforts in order to facilitate research at universities.

[ralfthedog]

How will they deal with namespace collisions?

I guess they could use something like ftpi2://mit.edu or ftpnlr://mit.edu but my guess is that they will do something like ftp://mit.edu.i2 or ftp://mit.edu.nlr

[The_Nirvana]

Contrary to popular belief...

Internet2 or Albience Network is not an isolated parallel infrastructure. It is just a consortium that is developing high-speed interconnect between several universities. For more information see...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_Network

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet2

[msims]

How will they deal with namespace collisions?

Internet2 already uses ipv6 which frees up more unallocated ip addresses to prevent namespace collisions. Just like using area codes to create more new phone numbers.

[ralfthedog]

How will they deal with namespace collisions?

I guess they could use something like ftpi2://mit.edu or ftpnlr://mit.edu but my guess is that they will do something like ftp://mit.edu.i2 or ftp://mit.edu.nlr

[The_Nirvana]

Contrary to popular belief...

Internet2 or Albience Network is not an isolated parallel infrastructure. It is just a consortium that is developing high-speed interconnect between several universities. For more information see...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_Network

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet2

[msims]

How will they deal with namespace collisions?

Internet2 already uses ipv6 which frees up more unallocated ip addresses to prevent namespace collisions. Just like using area codes to create more new phone numbers.