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From: "Barry Shein" <bzs@world.std.com>
In Singapore in June 2011 I gave a talk at HackerSpaceSG about just doing away with IP addresses entirely, and DNS.
Why not just use host names directly as addresses? Bits is bits, FQDNs are integers because, um, bits is bits. They're even structured so you can route on the network portion etc.
Routers themselves could hash them into some more efficient form for table management but that wouldn't be externally visible. I did suggest a standard for such hashing just to help with debugging etc but it'd only be a suggestion or perhaps common display format.
And Whacky Weekend begins early. Jim? Jim Fleming? How'd you break into Barry's email account? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274