On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 02:33:54 +0100, "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" said: > But why to spend time and money and to take risks to change something which > is not broken. IPv6 has no problem in keeping the same host numbers if the > used addressing plan uses a numbering scheme designed with that purpose in > mind, like the telephone numbering scheme. You change of telephone > providers - or use several at the same time - without changing number. That's because the phone number is more akin to a DNS name than an IP address. I'm pretty sure that if you investigate the insides of how the telco system makes that transparent provider-change work, you'd not be as interested in using it as an example. (Or did you *want* to go back to the days when routing tables were shipped around and installed on the fuzzballs twice a week? I got tired of *that* back in 1984. And back then, the routing tables were only a few hundred lines long, not the 150K routes we have now...)
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