Application name space and ASN.1 (Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald at Alvestrand.no>]

At 22:52 30.11.99 -0500, John Day wrote:
> At 18:12 -0500 11/30/99, Mark Atwood wrote:
> >John Day <day at bbn.com> writes:
> >>
> >> Correct.  Lets get an application name space so we don't need to worry
> >> about it.
> >>
> >
> >Please gods below, not more ASN.1
>
> What a strange reaction!?  What does an arcane syntax notation have to do
> with Shoch's observation that there are 3 kinds of addresses:
> applications, hosts, and routes?  What have you been smoking?

For those who missed the previous round.....
at the time ASN.1, X.400 and X.500 were defined, ISO/ITU (mostly ISO) also 
defined the concept of an "application" to be (......) (that's about the 
right level of precision) that you could address by using an "application 
entity title" or similar entity.

Somehow this idea never turned into anything that real products use for 
real operations, but you sometimes stumble across the relics of the idea 
here and there.

Naming applications something different from host:port would be nice. But 
we haven't managed to do it yet.

                       Harald A

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