[ih] History of Naming on The Internet - is it still relevant?

[Craig Partridge]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM touch--- via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> The user thinks in terms of socket connections; the rest can be opaque.
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I'd argue that the history of the Internet says that's not quite true.
Users care about the path their traffic takes in the network (various
issues about ensuring certain traffic did not transit certain countries
over the years).   Users care about performance, and before carriers sorta
figured out how to ensure good service, we found users playing around with
reaching into the routing layer.

I think in today's world, we can probably think in terms of a socket -- but
understanding that was not always so helps understand how we're in the
muddle we're in now.

Craig

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