V Guruprasad wrote: >In short, >you continue to have the full socket API with no impediment to its use. > This is misleading. You say that your main motivation here is to move the identification role out of IP up to DNS, and moving the resolver into the kernel is a necessary first step for that. But it's not a sufficient first step; to eliminate IP addresses as identifiers, you have to remove the socket API. >Since you can't strip the id role from names, it must be stripped from >IP, and that's what my thesis is about. ] > > You can't strip the ID role from IP, either, unless you provide a new form of ID for transport protocols to use. -- /===============================================================\ |John Stracke |jstracke@centivinc.com | |Principal Engineer|http://www.centivinc.com | |Centiv |My opinions are my own. | |===============================================================| |If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well *dance*!| \===============================================================/