[85766] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Jakma)
Mon Oct 17 07:34:11 2005
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:36:38 +0100 (IST)
From: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
To: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
Cc: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>,
David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>, Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
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On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Tony Li wrote:
> This is completely orthogonal to a real identifier/locator split,
> which would divide what we know of as the 'address' into two
> separate spaces, one which says "where" the node is, topologically,
> and one which says "who" the node is.
Hmm, no idea whether it's a good idea or not, but from POV of scaling
while it might make 'where' scaleable, you still have to find a way
to tie "who" to "where".
Some might say we already have this split though, DNS.
> Tony
regards,
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