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Re: user-relative names - was:[Re: Yahoo and IPv6]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Tue May 17 23:22:33 2011

From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110517195139.B96C78DD@resin16.mta.everyone.net>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 20:22:23 -0700
To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On May 17, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:

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> --- joelja@bogus.com wrote:
> From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
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>> if you put something in the dns you do so because you want to =
discovered. scoping the nameservers such that they only express certain =
certain resource records to queriers in a particular scope is fairly =
straight forward.
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>> The article was not about DNS.  It was about "Persistent Personal =
Names for Globally Connected Mobile Devices" where "Users normally =
create personal names by introducing devices locally, on a common WiFi =
network for example. Once created, these names remain persistently bound =
to their targets as devices move. Personal names are intended to =
supplement and not replace global DNS names." =20
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> you mean like mac addresses? those have a tendency to follow you =
around in ipv6...
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> <disclaimer>=20
>   Still an IPv6 wussie...  :-)=20
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> Only if you design your network that way.  EUI-64 isn't required.

don't much matter, if you move around you're going get them a lot.

> scott
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