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Re:Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address by jeeeeefff on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @10:33AM (#12262043)
Same reason we have DNS instead of remembering IP addresses.
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Re:Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address by IanCal on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @11:06AM (#12262298)
DNS allows us to keep swapping the IP address associated with a service though, this (afaik) doesn't.
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Re:Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address by pareshverma91 on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @12:55PM (#12263188)
Ability to swap underlying ip address is orthogonal to using alphanumerics in DNS. Numeric sequences could also be used as CNAME for the ip address. But we don't because of human brain.
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