Ned writes:
Nor did I say you could. The point is that
how IP addresses are used varies.
My point is that you want to uniquely identify every machine in the world using
IP, then every machine must have a unique IP address. If you are using names
instead of IP addresses, and you still want to uniquely identify every machine
in the world, then every machine must have a unique name.
Why is this so hard for you to understand?
I understand it perfectly. What I am illustrating is how poorly people
understand the real problems, how careless they are when reading, and how
readily they confuse one problem with another. This is why fixed address spaces
will be exhausted, no matter how large they are, and this is why TLD management
will continue to be a mess, no matter what changes are made.