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[Olivier Bonaventure]

Brian,
> 
>> 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.

With more recent APIs such as those described by Stuart Cheshire,
applications don't even see the IP addresses. Using applications built
on such APIs could be one way to improve their renumberability

 <http://www.stuartcheshire.org/quicktime/StuartCheshireIETF72.html>


Olivier

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