> I agree education is appropriate. Part of that is educating the > application development community that the real network has addressing > with limited scopes of relevance, so blindly assuming a flat routing > space and passing around topology specific information will result in > broken apps. This is ridiculous. Tony, we understand that we don't have a completely connected network. We've understood that for years. But we're not willing to adopt your delusions that this is the same problem as having ambiguous addresses. Keith