Subject: Re: Internet LISP protocol
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:12:26 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <y-idnWCMXdkH5x3VnZ2dnUVZ_sDinZ2d@speakeasy.net>
Kenny  <kentilton@gmail.com> wrote:
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| Barry Margolin wrote:
| > I was reading NANOG today and saw:
| >    Announcement : publicly available LISP and shim6 implementations
| > Turns out this has nothing to do with our favorite language.  LISP is 
| > Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol, a mechanism intended to be used 
| > with IPv6 to provide a single visible address for a server with multiple 
| > true addresses (e.g. because it has connections to multiple ISPs).  More 
| > info can supposedly be found at http://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/ (the server 
| > isn't responding for me).
| 
| They used Python.
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We should confound them all by implementing the LISP protocol
in Common Lisp. In fact, we should create a new dialect of CL
specifically for this task! What shall we call it? How about
OpenLISP?!?  <http://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/softwares/openlisp>


-Rob

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