RE: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

[John Day]

At 12:57 PM -0400 8/3/00, Book, Robert wrote:
>Vinton's idea has much merit. A scheme to allocate blocks of addresses to
>manufacturers would be much easier to support than an organization
>attempting to process individual email requests, or CGI scripted forms from

Good grief!  This is the worst possible solution.  We are allocating 
*addresses*, not serial numbers.

>a webpage, or a world-wide DHCP server for Amana ( and one for Maytag, etc.)

I presume that you assume that all Amana appliances will be in the 
same topological part of the network and all Maytag appliances will 
be a different part of the topology.

How do you suppose route aggregation will work with such an approach?

>to register a refrigerator. And easier administration should translate into
>lower cost...... :-) My apologies in advance for polluting the IETF announce
>list. Btw, did we ever find out how many people were on that elevator? :-)

John Day