Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[John Day]

At 11:50 -0500 12/1/99, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>Bob,
>
>Bob Braden wrote:
>>
>>    *>
>>   *> 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.
>
>Unfortunately the existing Internet is no longer an implementaion
>of the existing Internet architecture. That's why we have a problem.
>
That may be the best observation I have seen on this topic!

Take care,
John