[ih] Some Questions over IPv4 Ownership

[John Day]

>On 10/14/2010 8:24 PM, John Day wrote:
>>Sorry, what was true of telephone numbers?

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>>>We used to think that was true of telephone numbers.
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>("these concepts do not apply to addresses")

We already went though this. Although perhaps too indirectly.

The cell phone system changed phone numbers from being 
physical-connection-endpoint-addresses into application names and put 
other addressing schemes underneath the phone numbers so tehy could 
route to them and didn't tell anyone.  It became so useful, that it 
was decided to make all telephone numbers application names.

So what would you like to do?  Make IPv6 addresses application names? 
Then what would be put under them to be addresses so we could route 
to them?  MAC addresses?   That would be really neat.  Then we could 
route based on the manufacturer who built the interface rather than 
the provider where the interface was.  That ought to work really well!

Take care,
John