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Re: Thinking differently about names and addresses

2003-04-01 15:04:18
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:26:47 -0500
"J. Noel Chiappa" <jnc(_at_)ginger(_dot_)lcs(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu> wrote:

    > From: Keith Moore <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu>

    > HIP only solves part of the problem ... it doesn't provide any
    > way of mapping between that identity and an address where you
    > can reach the host.

A system doesn't have to provide mechanisms to look up mappings from
<any-name> to <any-other-name> to be useful; 

agreed.  but it does need to provide such mechanisms in order to provide
useful endpoint identifiers.  without a mechanism to map the endpoint
identifier to an IP address, such identifiers are useless in referrals
between application components.

Keith