Lloyd Wood writes:
> Telephone numbers are not equivalent to IP
> addresses (although you say they are), and
> it's a long time since actual telephone numbers
> have been used for hierarchical routing.
They are more similar than different, certainly enough so for the purposes of
the vulgarization I provide. No other commonplace technology seems to provide
so appropriate an analogy.
I don't remember mentioning hierarchical routing in my vulgarization.
> You can't have efficient address-based routing
> and efficient (sequential) assignment of the same
> addresses in the same space without severely
> constraining the growth of your network - and the
> telephone network does not.
Sure you can, with variable address spaces, and the telephone network does just
that.
