On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Tony Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > People have used the address as an identifier precisely because they had no > other choice. We have the opportunity to give them a better alternative.
Tony, Not with IPv4 or IPv6 I suspect. Their layer-4 protocols are already firmly coupled to the layer 3 address and through APIs to the layer-7 applications. As long as they're coupled tightly, I expect that use of the address for identifier purposes is inevitable. Regards, Bill -- William D. Herrin ................ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004 -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
