Re: Thinking differently about names and addresses

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

> >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.

true.  but requiring apps to determine which of several potentially
ambiguous (or obsolete) addresses is the one that reaches the intended
peer by trial-and-error does not strike me as an efficient or
desirable strategy.