[137522] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Tue Feb 15 12:39:30 2011
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:38:43 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D5AB7AD.9010604@otd.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/15/2011 11:28 AM, David Israel wrote:
> They don't want the protocol tied to how things work today; it needs to
> be open to innovation and variety. And part of that is that an address
> needs to be just an address, with no other significance other than being
> unique and routable. The moment an address has any significance beyond
> the network layer, it's a liability waiting to happen.
+1
The rare exception being multicast. :)
Jack
