Todd Walton wrote: > On 5/7/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >TCP/IP made explicit the concept of endpoint addresses, and discovered a > >new definition of "network". > > I see, I think. I'm a fifth of the way through the talk and so far > what I've gotten is that phone numbers are paths. A phone number > isn't an end point, but rather how to construct a path to the end > point. Very subtle difference, and I'm not sure I see how it matters. > > But something tickles the mind there. Maybe it becomes clearer later.
That makes me think of the Postman Sort: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_sort#Postman.27s_Sort A zipcode is not a destination, but it does tell you how to get there. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
