Right. Domain names are persistent identifiers. In the future, it is not
ridiculous to map domain names to other unique IDs other than IP addresses.
Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 10:27:02AM +0000,
Lican Huang wrote
a message of 51 lines which said:
> I think it is reasonable to let resource name have a
> human-understanding meaning, not just unique ID.
As Niall said, this is becoming out-of-scope. But I plead guilty, I'm
the one who launched the discussion here, in the first place :-)
> Domain name is originally for the easy memory of IP address.
No. It is only one of the goals. Another one, much more important in
my opinion, is to provide *stable* identifiers, specially when IP
addresses are PI-addresses, which can change quite often.
In the future, if we get a real separation of identifier and locator,
the DNS will be used only to get meaningful identifiers. But, in the
mean time, the great thing about the DNS is that is shields us
partially from IP address changes.
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