Re: [RRG] Consensus? End-user networks need their own portable address space

["William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li> wrote:
> People have used the address as an identifier precisely because they had no
> other choice.  We have the opportunity to give them a better alternative.

Tony,

Not with IPv4 or IPv6 I suspect. Their layer-4 protocols are already
firmly coupled to the layer 3 address and through APIs to the layer-7
applications. As long as they're coupled tightly, I expect that use of
the address for identifier purposes is inevitable.

Regards,
Bill


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