On 2008-10-29 11:34, Olivier Bonaventure wrote: > Brian, >>> I'm convinced that with some small changes we could significantly >>> improve the "renumberability" of services and applications. >> I wish I could be as optimistic. Unfortunately I believe we have >> 25 years of history to deal with (i.e. since the Berkeley socket >> interface hit the streets) in which IP addresses have been treated >> as de facto constants in services and applications. > > With more recent APIs such as those described by Stuart Cheshire, > applications don't even see the IP addresses. Using applications built > on such APIs could be one way to improve their renumberability > > <http://www.stuartcheshire.org/quicktime/StuartCheshireIETF72.html>
Certainly a name-based API confines the problem to the API and the stack, but (as IPv6 has taught us) there are billions of dollars invested in code that uses the address-based API, and the inertia in that software is enormous. Brian _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
