2 Oct
2006
2 Oct
'06
11:07 a.m.
So did mine. Basically, I see three reasons to not
give individuals
individual phone numbers which stick to the individual. One is that
the individual -> phone number mapping is neither one-to-one
It somewhat looks like this is happening quite well in our cellphone
based society.
two is the privacy and related concerns;
Is the snail mail system different in any way? These concerns can be
handled reasonably, even for the over-the-top privacy types.
three is hat we don't know how to route
even 1e9, much less 1e11, individual addresses worldwide
The cellphone guys are doing a pretty good job.
when there's
no topological hierarchy available to simplify the problem (note that
both the large routing networks in operation today, the Internet and
the PSTN, use hierarchical routing in some form).
There is still some hierarchy, but noweher near as there used to be.
Most of Notes on the Network is obsolete (or getting there fast).
--
Will