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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 >
that's pretty interesting too " Unmanaged Internet Architecture " http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/uia/ regards Marc -- Marc Manthey 50672 Köln - Germany Hildeboldplatz 1a Tel.:0049-221-3558032 Mobil:0049-1577-3329231 mail: marc at let.de PGP/GnuPG: 0x1ac02f3296b12b4d jabber :marc at kgraff.net IRC: #opencu freenode.net twitter: http://twitter.com/macbroadcast web: http://www.let.deOpinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).
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