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Re: ocean: do not boil



> >   > p2p applications can be designed to use intermediaries,
> >   > just like SMTP and HTTP. If I was designing an apps
> >   > protocol today, I would definitely make sure it could
> >   > be relayed between address spaces at applications level.
> >
> > => Are we in a position to mandate this?
> >
> 
> This is the Internet, so no. But we (or if we were lucky the IAB)
> could make an architectural recommendation.

It would strike me as extremely bizarre for the IAB to recommend 
that P2P applications define their own addressing system and 
routing protocols when IPv6 offers reasonably good ones.