Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

[Bill Manning <bmanning at ISI.EDU>]

% > > Let's assume that there is a FooBar server in SiteA.  If 
% > > another node in SiteA (NodeA) is communicating via a 
% > > multi-party application to a node in SiteB (NodeB), and wants 
% > > to refer NodeB to the FooBar server in SiteA, what does it do?
% > 
% > Send a name.
% 
% Not all addresses are published in DNS.
% DNS isn't a requirement for IP either.
% 
% Greets,
%  Jeroen

	Quoth Steve... "There are no urgent DNS problems"

	Are the apps for which IPv6 is enabled that -can not-
	use address literals?  If so, then Steve is wrong and 
	the DNS has become critical infrastructure to the working
	of the Internet.  Otherwise, we should trapese down the
	path of separation of topology locator from stack identifier.

	and then revisit the DNS to see if its best used as a lookup
	service between these two things... :)


--bill
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