[rrg] [Fwd: I-D Action:draft-carpenter-renum-needs-work-00.txt]

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 2008-10-28 23:33, Olivier Bonaventure wrote:

[Several interesting paragraphs and then...]

> I'm convinced that with some small changes we could significantly
> improve the "renumberability" of services and applications.

I wish I could be as optimistic. Unfortunately I believe we have
25 years of history to deal with (i.e. since the Berkeley socket
interface hit the streets) in which IP addresses have been treated
as de facto constants in services and applications.

   Brian