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You still need some way of identifying individual devices on the Internet, if not an IP address, then something that may as well be.
Every network card has a MAC address, but those aren't routable.
https://superuser.com/questions/377521/why-cant-routers-use-mac-addresses-instead-of-private-local-ip-addresses