Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

[Paul Jakma <paul () clubi ie>]

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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