Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[Bob Braden]

   *> 
  *> The problem is not to make applications "NAT aware" or "NAT friendly".  The
  *> problem is to make applications "IP address unaware".  What is an
  *> application doing exchanging and using names for things 2 layers below it?
  *> Sounds like a design for trouble if I ever heard of one.

I don't believe this argument, John.  The IP address is (part of) the
transport layer end point address, something that an application can
reasonably be expected to know about in the existing Internet
architecture.

Bob Braden