On Wed 2002.11.06, John Stracke wrote: > 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. No more than you need to disable the socket API for MAC layer or ATM AAL5 access. > >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. Read my thesis.