Re: Competing Domain-Name Registries Creating Tower of Cyber-Babel

[ned.freed at mrochek.com]

> Randy Bush writes:

> > both assertions are false

> Not terribly relevant to my original point, but: I want to be able to
> individually address every machine on a single worldwide network running IP.
> How do I do this without a unique IP address for each machine?

Nothing prevents you from assigning a unique IP address to each machine.
However, this doesn't mean that every IP address in the world uniquely
identifies a single machine. There are all sorts of ways IP addresses can be
shared by multiple machines which you may or may not choose to use.

				Ned