Re: The internet architecture

[macbroadcast <marc at let.de>]

Am 18.12.2008 um 18:10 schrieb Dick Hardt:

> 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

ok try this paper and tell me what you think ;)


http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/uip:hotnets03.pdf

-Marc


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