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You're kidding, right? After what MHSC just went through, if someone were to offer a routable/portable /24, my only response would be to ask where you wanted the body delivered. It would be warm and cooling upon delivery. Portable/routable IP addresses are MORE desireable than domain names. > -----Original Message----- > From: Kavi, Prabhu [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 1:10 PM > To: 'Joe Abley'; Kavi, Prabhu > Cc: 'Hank Nussbacher'; Stephen Stuart; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Statements against new.net? > > > > Yes it does, but unlike the land grab for interesting > domain names, people worry less about having an > interesting IP address, especially if they know it > will be portable. > > Prabhu > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Joe Abley [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 1:09 PM > > To: Kavi, Prabhu > > Cc: 'Hank Nussbacher'; Stephen Stuart; [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Statements against new.net? > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 12:41:56PM -0500, Kavi, Prabhu wrote: > > > No, think of this as a resolution step that happens > > > in a matter analogous to DNS resolution, but for > > > IP<->IP address translation. > > > > > > At the beginning of a session, a translation request > > > is made to resolve to the logical address (and all > > > IP addresses are considered logical at first, just > > > like all telephone addresses are considered logical > > > until they are resolved). The translation is made, > > > and the physical IP address is cached and used for > > > the session. > > > > > > Obviously, end stations do not request this > > > translation today so it would first require a > > > protocol definition. > > > > This suffers from exactly the same problems wrt address portability > > that DNS does, doesn't it? Looks to me like you just described DNS, > > but used an IP address instead of /[a-zA-Z0-9-\.]+/. > > > > > > Joe > > >
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