On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:44:31AM -0800,
Hallam-Baker, Phillip <pbaker(_at_)verisign(_dot_)com> wrote
a message of 431 lines which said:
In fact it would be best for the O/S to provide an API which hides
the details of the IP address from the application entirely in the
same way that the ethernet MAC address is hidden.
I agree and some people are working on it:
Towards A Hostname-Oriented Network Protocol Stack for Flexible
Addressing in a Dynamic Internet
<http://users.piuha.net/chvogt/pub/2008/vogt-2008-hostname-oriented-stack.pdf>
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