You mean assert network numbers like Appletalk allows for?!? On Fri, 15 Apr 1994, Walt Haas wrote:
However, if we could develop a technology which could make renumbering of a network (ie. a company, university or similar-sized unit) fast and efficient, this premise would break down and it would no longer be unreasonable to consider renumbering the organization when switching providers.
Suppose, for example that Domain Names were sacred but a daemon could somehow touch every machine in a certain domain simultaneously and give it a new number, while simultaneously updating the routing tables that pointed into that domain?
No, I don't have an RFC written, sorry, it's just an idea.
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