Re: Split the IANA functions?

On 7 jan 2014, at 15:58, Eliot Lear <lear(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com> wrote:

> Andrew,
>
> It's clear that I wasn't clear.  Deciding on a tree structure has
> political implications, be that DNS, RPKI, or other (and there are
> other).  To ignore those implications would be unwise.  They are weighed
> against technical considerations, as always.
>
> Eliot
One have to go back to the basics for requirements of identifiers, and one of 
them has to do with uniqueness (others are persistence, human readability, 
lookup mechanisms, scale, stability, homogeneity, ability to do searches, 
inverse functions, and more...). Uniqueness can be local or global. And global 
uniqueness can in turn, if that is necessary, be done in an opportunistic way 
or a fool proof way. If one really need guaranteed global uniqueness and at the 
same time easy lookups (but not searches, inverse and other things) global 
distributed hierarchal allocation is a very efficient way of doing it.

What I think you say Eliot is that when one look at the requirements on 
whatever name space is designed, one have to take also political arguments into 
account. That I agree with.

But for some set of requirements, doing things in a different way than 
hierarchal delegated allocation is darn difficult. Instead one have to work 
around the political problems by (as you say) not ignoring them, but 
understanding the issues exist and design around them.

   Patrik

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