Re: The internet architecture

[Dick Hardt <dick.hardt at gmail.com>]

On 17-Dec-08, at 11:06 AM, Scott Brim wrote:

> Mark Seery allegedly wrote on 11/30/08 10:38 AM:
> > Some questions have also risen WRT identity:
> >
> > http://www.potaroo.net/presentations/2006-11-30-whoareyou.pdf
> >
> > Is identity a network level thing or an application level thing?
>
> Whatever.  All of the above.  There are many possible ways to use
> identifiers, particularly for "session" (whatever that is, at whatever
> layer) authentication and re-authentication.  The point to
> locator/identifier separation is primarily to get identification- 
> related
> functions to stop depending on location-dependent tokens, i.e.  
> locators.
> Once that's done, they can use anything they like -- and they do :-).

Agreed. They do.

That does not mean that identity should not be an important part of  
the internet architecture.

Note also that the paper above mixes identity with identifiers. They  
are not the same thing

-- Dick

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