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Re: [RAM] Incremental Deployment of LISP


On Mar 29, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:

It's a general law of system design that as systems grow, it's usually the
case that a single mechanism A that did both X and Y needs to get separated
into two separate mechanisms B and C, one each for X and Y - which means that
it would be an extremely bad idea to go in the reverse direction as a system
got larger.

In other words, trying to do both:
- finding out where some user/computer/etc is, and
- finding out if/how to get there
in a single mechanism would be a really bad idea.

The DNS won't work, and deploying some other infrastructure (X.500? Something Else?) to handle lookups is a nonstarter, IMHO.

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