Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[Bob Braden]

  *> > 
  *> > 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.
  *> 
  *> Unfortunately the existing Internet is no longer an implementaion
  *> of the existing Internet architecture. That's why we have a problem.
  *> 
  *>   Brian
  *> 
Brian,

I don't disagree with you.  I was only trying to counter what seemed
to me a bogus appeal to the abstract principles of the Internet
architecture.

Bob