On Sep 13, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Fred Baker wrote:
What would be Really Nice would be to in some way ensure that
applications never saw IP addresses at all - they *only* worked on
names, and maintained no knowledge in the application of what
address was used.
I always thought an opportunity was missed when coming up with the
socket interface for IPv6 in that we didn't push the management of
the address down to the kernel, having the kernel return a
'handle' (like a file handle) in struct sockaddr_in instead of the
bit pattern that was actually used on the network. We might even
have been able to use the class E address space as the handle thereby
making the upgrade to IPv6 much more transparent to applications than
it is now.
Water under the bridge.
Regards,
-drc
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