Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[Jessica Yu]

>> There is also a potential scaling issue of using multiple addresses
>> as general purpose multihomging mechanism. This is because if this
>> is the case, most of the Internet hosts will end up with multiple
>> addresses.
>
>I don't see why this is inherently a problem.


        This is paradigm shift in the Internet from majority of hosts 
        with single IP address to the majority of the hosts with 
        multiple IP addresses.  Many existing support mechanisms such as 
        routing (see Keith's message), DNS name look up, traffic engineering
        network managment,etc. may not be adequate. It may also break the 
        things that we have not even thought of.  And do not forget about 
        operational complexity issues. Are we really ready for such a
        major shift?

        So I would not say so quickly that it's not a problem.


                                                --Jessica