On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Keith Moore wrote:
However, this also means that the end-to-end-ness or long term stationarity
of the numeric (IP) addresses should no longer be taken for granted, and
that names should be used instead as the primary reference.
No it doesn't, because your overloading of DNS names for this purpose
interferes with their utility for other purposes.
What other purposes do DNS names have other than identifying a host, or
possibly a service?
The multi6 wg is working on scalable multihoming in IPv6. It looks like
this will be done by separating identifiers from locators. One (radical)
way to do this would be to use the full host name as the identifier and
IP(v6) addresses as the locators. Other than the fact that it breaks
all known transport protocols, this makes a lot of sense IMO.
Unfortunately multi6 doesn't have anything on the official agenda for
Atlanta. If anyone who is going to Atlanta is interested in hearing
about what's happening in and around multi6, let me know.
Iljitsch van Beijnum