Isn't it strange that telephone numbers are segmented arbitrarily? Weird that you know what a "country code", "area code", and "exchange" are?
It's not madness. It's topological addressing.
It's not madness. It's topological addressing.
Phone numbers were that way because telephone companies had to organize a hierarchical set of wires that could make physical connections between any two endpoints with limited relay-driven processing. Packet switched networks are supposed to abstract away topological addressing for the higher layers. Why make users type it in? Why, with all of the computing power we have available, do we make users put in the protocol? Protocol is certainly not relevant to most users. I've even known CIOs to mess that one up. Why put it in front of them at all for the default situation?