Can I summarize the current round of objections to my admittedly
off-beat proposal (use basically URLs rather than IP addresses in IP
packet src/dest) as:
We can't do that! It would require changing something!
Nope. You can summarize it as "it doesn't scale", which is what has
killed endless numbers of superficially plausible bad ideas.
Like I said, if there were a few thousand URLs it could work, but with
hundreds of millions or billions, not a chance. Numbers with five zeros
and numbers with nine zeros are not the same.
But while we're proposing bad ideas, how about this one: we pull the
domain name out of the URL and flip it around and put it at the front, so
instead of https://badidea.com/crud we have "com.badidea/https://crud.";
Now we can do hierarchical routing, starting with the "com" and then
"com.badidea", shoving the DNS resolution into the router.
There's only a few thousand top level domains, so routers should he able
to handle this with no problem. Whaddaya think?
Regards,
John Levine, jo...@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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