[8747] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: NAP philosophy & IP technology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger Fajman)
Thu Dec 2 21:37:17 1993
To: fair@apple.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
From: "Roger Fajman" <RAF@cu.nih.gov>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 21:34:50 EST
> OK, so IP isn't fully "plug & play" now. There are people working on
> that problem. For those who would cite AppleTalk's success in this
> area, it is important to note that we did not remove the complexity of
> networking - we just hid it in the routers.
Yes, it's true that things like DHCP will make IP more "plug and play."
But in the short term the trend with CIDR is to tie the customer closer
to the provider. If you have to number from the provider's address
space and if, as some were proposing at the last IETF, exceptions are
not allowed, how would one be able to connect to two providers at all?
(I'm not actually worried about this -- I'm sure it can and will be
handled.)
By now I think I've forgotten what it was that moved me to bring this
thing up. But anyway, if requirements like the ability to attach to
two providers are never mentioned, they may get left out of new
designs.
