Keith Moore 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.
without a mechanism to map the endpoint
identifier to an IP address, such identifiers are useless in referrals
between application components.
Not completely useless; they would prevent the problem of reaching the
*wrong* endpoint. This isn't much help if you have only one address for
the endpoint you want; but, if you have a global and a local address for
it, and you get the wrong HIP from the host that answers when you use
the local address, then you know not to use that one.
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