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	Title		: The Case for an Addressless Internet
	Author(s)	: V. Guruprasad
	Filename	: draft-guruprasad-addressless-internet-00.txt
	Pages		: 39
	Date		: 17-Nov-00
	
This Internet-Draft proposes elimination of end-to-end IP addresses
from the Internet, presenting a stronger embodiment of the end-to-end
principle by elevating the end-to-end aspects of connectivity and
routing above the network to an operating system-like framework that
implements virtual network addressing and efficient translation to
switched paths, obviating end-to-end addressing at all levels. The
resulting flexibility would allow, for example, piecewise transition
to IPv6 and full access to the existing Internet for the emerging
wireless services without allocating new addresses.

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