Re: The Internet and the Law, the Economist, 13-19 January 2001

[Stephen Sprunk]

Thus spake "Keith Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > And then there's the cases where you don't care WHAT your IP
> > address is, as long as your hostname is stable.
>
> perhaps.  but that assumes a particular set of applications that don't
> need connections of long duration.

Well, in the dialup example given, his IP address would be constant
within a session, just not constant across sessions.

The more interesting case would be enhancing TCP to allow endpoint IP
addresses to change during the life of the connection.

> Keith

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