URLs, IPs and interception

[Roland Perry]

In article <47CB1771.4070008@zen.co.uk>, Peter Fairbrother 
<zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk> writes
>IPs should be just like telephone numbers, freely available to all.

That's good, because they are.

>No further functionality is needed.

No further functionality is current expected from deployment of ipv6.

>It's useful to have the first portion select eg a geographical area, as 
>is done with telephone numbers.

And that's true as well. There are five such geographical areas, and you 
can easily find out which area any network is located (although some big 
networks are multi-region so it's often going to be a bit fuzzy).
-- 
Roland Perry