Harald Tveit Alvestrand writes:
> btw, my current naive prediction of the way the Internet will evolve is
> that unless new invention occurs, the default-free zone will eventually be
> flat-routing on the number of ISPs in the world, and that this number will
> have 5 digits.
>
> stable addresses for the lifetime of your ISP service contract seems like a
> not too terrible deal, if renumbering is easy.
>
> for IPv6 address allocation schemes, check out
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6-sparse.html for some recent thoughts.
Harald,
I think this probably boils down to something
completely non-technical: do people view IP
addresses as "addresses" ala street addresses,
etc, or do they view them as possessions like
(now) phone numbers and email addresses. Though
the net was designed for "addresses", I suspect
that they are viewed more as possessions which is
an obvious problem.
The only question that remains is whether we are
-- as they say -- pissing up a rope. If we are, we
just need to accept reality and move on from
there.
Mike
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