On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:44:31AM -0800, Hallam-Baker, Phillip <pbaker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 431 lines which said: > In fact it would be best for the O/S to provide an API which hides > the details of the IP address from the application entirely in the > same way that the ethernet MAC address is hidden. I agree and some people are working on it: Towards A Hostname-Oriented Network Protocol Stack for Flexible Addressing in a Dynamic Internet <http://users.piuha.net/chvogt/pub/2008/vogt-2008-hostname-oriented-stack.pdf> _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf