M. E. Rudin (1971) proved, under CH, that for each P-point p there exists a P-point q strictly RK-greater than p. This result was proved under
${\mathfrak {p}= \mathfrak {c}}$
by A. Blass (1973), who also showed that each RK-increasing
$ \omega $
-sequence of P-points is upper bounded by a P-point, and that there is an order embedding of the real line into the class of P-points with respect to the RK-ordering. In this paper, the results cited above are proved under the (weaker) assumption that
$\mathfrak { b}=\mathfrak {c}$
. A. Blass asked in 1973 which ordinals can be embedded in the set of P-points, and pointed out that such an ordinal cannot be greater than
$ \mathfrak {c}^{+}$
. In this paper it is proved, under
$\mathfrak {b}=\mathfrak {c}$
, that for each ordinal
$\alpha < \mathfrak {c}^{+}$
, there is an order embedding of
$ \alpha $
into P-points. It is also proved, under
$\mathfrak {b}=\mathfrak {c}$
, that there is an embedding of the long line into P-points.