摘要：O ver the past year or so we have seen a heightened level of
interest in Internet routing and addressing. Speculation
regarding the future role of the Internet raises the possibility
of the Internet supporting as many as hundreds of billions of
chattering devices. What does such a future imply in terms of the
core technologies of the Internet? Consideration of this topic has
prompted a critical examination of the architecture of the Internet,
including the scaling properties of routing systems, the forms of
interdependence between addressing plans and routing, and the roles
of addresses within the architecture.
