Re: Thinking differently about names and addresses

[John Stracke <jstracke at centive.com>]

Keith Moore 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.
> without a mechanism to map the endpoint
> identifier to an IP address, such identifiers are useless in referrals
> between application components.
>  
Not completely useless; they would prevent the problem of reaching the 
*wrong* endpoint.  This isn't much help if you have only one address for 
the endpoint you want; but, if you have a global and a local address for 
it, and you get the wrong HIP from the host that answers when you use 
the local address, then you know not to use that one.

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