Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

[Fred Baker]

At 04:57 AM 8/11/00 +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>I have an idea:  Let's merge IP addresses with telephone numbers.  A person
>will have one IP address for each telephone number he owns, and vice versa,
>and the two numbers will be the same.

great idea. When I build a telephone out of an IP dialler attached to 
someone's waist, a modulator on their necklace, and an earphone attached to 
their earring, all connected by IP on BlueTooth, what addresses do I put on 
the different components of the telephone?

But we're still mixing addresses and numbers. An address gives you 
topological location; a name translates to an address. All the games you 
want to play with expanding and extending the telephone number are games 
with the name. We still need an address.