Scenarios for Flexible Address Structure
Guangpeng Li, Sheng Jiang, Yihao Jia · 1997
Along as the adoption of TCP/IP in increasingly emerging scenarios, challenges emerge as well due to the ossified address structure. To still enable TCP/IP for networks that previously using exclusive protocols, a flexible address structure would be highly preferred for their particular properties. This document describes well-recognized scenarios that typically require a flexible address structure, and states the requirements of such flexible address structure.