Re: Thinking differently about names and addresses

[Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:26:47 -0500
"J. Noel Chiappa" <jnc at ginger.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

>     > From: Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.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.
> 
> A system doesn't have to provide mechanisms to look up mappings from
> <any-name> to <any-other-name> to be useful; 

agreed.  but it does need to provide such mechanisms in order to provide
useful endpoint identifiers.  without a mechanism to map the endpoint
identifier to an IP address, such identifiers are useless in referrals
between application components.

Keith