On 27/2/20 22:46, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 7:45 PM Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:On 2/27/20 7:21 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:As the application layer designer, I am the customer here. I do not care about the IP address.You are only one of many, many application level designers. The fact that you don't care about the IP address doesn't mean that no application designer needs to care about the IP address. Fundamentally the Internet is a peer-to-peer network, and there's no particular reason to assume that peers only interact in pairs. KeithI am not aware of any successful application designers who design stuff that doesn't work in the real world.
You've never used W95? :;-) Thanks, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fgont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492
