Re: The internet architecture

From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>
To: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker at verisign.com>
Cc: ietf at ietf.org
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:57:26 +0100
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:44:31AM -0800,
 Hallam-Baker, Phillip <pbaker at verisign.com> wrote 
 a message of 431 lines which said:

> In fact it would be best for the O/S to provide an API which hides
> the details of the IP address from the application entirely in the
> same way that the ethernet MAC address is hidden.

I agree and some people are working on it:

Towards A Hostname-Oriented Network Protocol Stack for Flexible
Addressing in a Dynamic Internet
<http://users.piuha.net/chvogt/pub/2008/vogt-2008-hostname-oriented-stack.pdf>
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