Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[Brian E Carpenter <brian at hursley.ibm.com>]

Bob,

Bob Braden wrote:
> 
>    *>
>   *> The problem is not to make applications "NAT aware" or "NAT friendly".  The
>   *> problem is to make applications "IP address unaware".  What is an
>   *> application doing exchanging and using names for things 2 layers below it?
>   *> Sounds like a design for trouble if I ever heard of one.
> 
> I don't believe this argument, John.  The IP address is (part of) the
> transport layer end point address, something that an application can
> reasonably be expected to know about in the existing Internet
> architecture.

Unfortunately the existing Internet is no longer an implementaion
of the existing Internet architecture. That's why we have a problem.

  Brian