[ih] Some Questions over IPv4 Ownership

[Richard Bennett]

  Right, the phone number analogy doesn't wash because it's an 
identifier and not a device address. The phone company maps it to the 
functional equivalent of a MAC address and then locates it. I don't even 
know what the current IP address is for Bennett.com, and nobody needs to 
know it but DNS.

Embedding MAC addresses inside IPv6 addresses was one of the dumbest 
ideas in the history of networking.

RB

On 10/14/2010 6:59 PM, John Day wrote:
>> On 10/14/2010 8:24 PM, John Day wrote:
>>> Sorry, what was true of telephone numbers?
>
> Snip
>
>>>> We used to think that was true of telephone numbers.
>>
>> ("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

-- 
Richard Bennett