RE: Confusing the DNS (was: Re: [wg-c] Straw Vote)

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

> Roeland, the limit has nothing at all to do with using a Vax,
> or any other
> machine dependency.  It is dictated by operational size
> limitations of
> UDP.  In other words, it is a protocol limitation, not a
> machine limitation.

But they didn't have to do it that way. There were other choices. They
could have used two packets or made it able to layer it over any number
of packets. Why do you think they crammed it all into one packet?