You are missing a lot. The problems don't magically change because everyone
has an IP address and a permanent connection. They remain the same and the
just grow in magnitude. How can you justify making such a sweeping statement?
Getting packets from A to B involve a lot of question. A *few* are: How does
A know B's address (maybe something like a distributed database system that
maps names to addresses, we could call it the Domain Name System)? How does A
format the data so that B can understand it (maybe we can define structured way
of doing this for different types of data. We could create one for email and
call it a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, and one for web pages and we can call
it the HyperText Transfer Protocol, and so on)?
---> Phil
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
[mailto:owner-ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org]On Behalf Of
ian(_at_)bond-rumours(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 2:10 AM
To: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Justify what you are doing and why you are doing it
After studying a few e-mails on the ietf mail system I am coming to several
conclusions.
It will not be long before each house, never mind business, is assigned a
unique IP address, and that each house or business will be permanently
connected to the Internet.
When this happens there will no longer be a need to have centrally served
services, such as e-mail, DNS, POP3 or HTTP/HTTPS etc. Control over the
Internet will revert back to the Internet community, where it belongs.
Which means your task should realistically only be concerned with router
technology and how to get IPv4 or IPv6 packets from A to B, and nothing else.
I take it this is the case, or am I missing something?
It just seems to me that there is far too much commercial interest
controlling your agenda.