Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

["J. Noel Chiappa" <jnc at ginger.lcs.mit.edu>]

    > From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov at cisco.com>

    >> the fundamental architectural premise of NAT's *as we know them today*
    >> - that there are no globally unique names at the internetwork level

    > I would say that the fundamental architectural premise of NATs is that
    > globally unique names at the internetwork layer are not carried in the
    > network layer header. This is not to say that such names don't exist -
    > just that they aren't in the IP header.

That may be true in some future variant of NAT - and if so, I'd be *much*
happier with it (I don't any problem with limited use of names with local
scope) - but my take is that it's not the case today.

And no, DNS names are *not* what I was thinking of when I said "names at the
internetwork level"! :-) For one thing, they don't contain *location*
information.

	Noel