Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

[Matt Crawford]

> Phone numbers have moved from being direct as originally implemented
> to being a level of indirection, thanks to a lot of behind-the-scenes
> mucking about. The Internet introduced DNS to gain that same level of
> indirection. Phone numbers are now portable; DNS names are portable.

I don't agree with that.  Host names, and a means for translating
them to addresses, existed before DNS.  Introduction of hierarchical
naming and DNS let the maintenance of this translation mechanism be
decentralized.

Hm, wasn't this thread started by a suggestion that so-called
addresses be assigned under centralized control?