> Keith Moore wrote: > > ... What's foolish is to assume > > that everyone uses the Internet, now and in the future, > > exactly like you've seen it used within your limited experience. > > Yet you want to do exactly that by insisting that all apps for all > time want to view the network as a globally flat-routed space.
I have yet to see anything that would justify changing this fundamental design feature of IP. > > The IETF does not exist to bless stupidity or shortsightness. > > I couldn't have said it better myself. glad you agree :) > > ... > > > http will work as well, > > > > Maybe, as long as you don't do redirects. > > Redirects work fine if they are based on names rather than literals. nope, that just causes a different set of failures under different circumstances. Keith -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
