There is also the very real issue that ISPs will very probably start shifting ip addresses more often even when it is technically unnecessary, so as to avoid services like Freenet should we be successful.
It is a real shame for the Internet in general that it is developing in the direction where even users who could be are not granted a permanent point of presence. Another one in the long list of dooming factors for the Internet - when we are done with Freenet it will be about time to start working on a full replacement. On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:21:47AM -0500, david at aminal.com wrote: > Just a quick point - If you use IP addresses as identifiers you're > really swimming against the tide. IP addresses are evolving to be > strictly locators in a network topology, and losing the interface > identifier function. This is especially true in IPV6. V6 is > designed so that addresses can change easily and transparently, > whenever there is a change in the route to a particular machine. > > This may take some time to fully play out, but it is definitely > happening, because that's the only way known to make the IP network > scale up the way it needs too. > > David Schutt > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev > -- \oskar _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
