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Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> Tue, 19 December 2000 19:10 UTC

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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: V Guruprasad <prasad@watson.ibm.com>
CC: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>, ietf@ietf.org
In-reply-to: V Guruprasad's message of Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:20:23 -0500, <20001219112023.A19099@bubble.watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: NATs *ARE* evil!
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   Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:20:23 -0500
   From: V Guruprasad <prasad@watson.ibm.com>

   On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Keith Moore wrote:

   > mumble.  as far as I can tell, both DNS names and IP addresses
   > are hopelessly overloaded and are likely to stay that way until
   > we figure out how to make a major architectural change.

   Could you please take a look at
	   draft-guruprasad-addressless-internet-00.txt

I just took a look at it, and it makes the following interesting
assumption: "Internet == Web ---> URL's are the only form of addresses
which matter".

It also seems to be espousing a form of address path which looks
remarkably similar to UUCP bang-path routing, using optimizations very
similar to which were encoded in a UUCP pathalias file.

Am I missing something or is that in essense your proposal?   

						- Ted

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