Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[Jessica Yu <jyy at ans.net>]

>> There is also a potential scaling issue of using multiple addresses
>> as general purpose multihomging mechanism. This is because if this
>> is the case, most of the Internet hosts will end up with multiple
>> addresses.
>
>I don't see why this is inherently a problem.


        This is paradigm shift in the Internet from majority of hosts 
	with single IP address to the majority of the hosts with 
	multiple IP addresses.  Many existing support mechanisms such as 
	routing (see Keith's message), DNS name look up, traffic engineering
	network managment,etc. may not be adequate. It may also break the 
	things that we have not even thought of.  And do not forget about 
	operational complexity issues. Are we really ready for such a
	major shift?

	So I would not say so quickly that it's not a problem.


						--Jessica