Re: [saad] About saad

At 12:07 PM 10/16/2003, James Kempf wrote:
>An IP address acts in two roles:
>
>1) As a node or endpoint identifier to the transport layer for an end to end
>conversation.
>
>2) As a locator for routing packets to a particular topological location.

actually, I will argue that the endpoint identifier is the dns name. That 
has problems in that

  - it needs to be able to name a service and get the address of the most 
serviceable instance of a computer offering it to the requestor; it 
currently simply offers *an* address of a list of addresses from which the 
requestor needs to choose at random

  - it presumes a global address space (there is no concept of "source 
route to this gateway address and then to that private address", or the 
obvious generalization)

  - A list of other things I will think of just after I send this email

But it in fact acts to identify the intended endpoint. 

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