Re: references on non-central authority network protocols

["Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk () cisco com>]

Thus spake "Patrick Thomas" <root () utility clubscholarship com>
> I am looking for any and all research (and perhaps your
> comments), references, etc. regarding replacements for the
> TCP/IP protocol that do not require centralized authority
> structures (central authority to assign network numbers).

Please explain how you think any protocol could support non-trivial numbers
of users without some arbiter to prevent address collisions.

There are several alternatives to TCP being researched, but there are
currently no viable alternatives to IP.

S