> From: "Templin, Fred L" <Fred(_dot_)L(_dot_)Templin(_at_)boeing(_dot_)com>
> No; not multiple identities. One identity; multiple interfaces and
> multiple addresses.
But to the network, a thing with multiple identity names (no matter what the
exact namespace the names come from) looks like multiple things - code can't
'step outside the network' and, from an external view, see that there's only
one thing. There's no way to tell the two names refer to the same thing -
unless there is some facility for _detecting_ when two names refer to the
same underlying thing. At which point, that equivalence class becomes the
real 'name of the thing'.
But I must confess I'm kind of confused as to why any of this matters? I
mean, it's fun philosophical debate (well, for some people, I guess :-), but
so what?
Noel
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