5. Conclusion

   When large numbers of homogeneous Internet hosts are deployed, it is
   particularly important that both their designers and other members of
   the Internet community diligently assess host implementation quality
   and reconfigurability.

   Implementors of host services should avoid any kind of use of unique
   globally-routable IP addresses within a fixed configuration part of
   the service implementation.  If there is a requirement for pre-
   configured state, then care should be taken to use an appropriate
   service identifier and to use standard mechanisms for dynamically
   resolving the identifier into an IP address.  Also, any such
   identifiers should be alterable in the field through a conventional
   command and control interface for the service.