On Nov 6, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Lican Huang wrote:
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.
Persistent is not the same as stable identifiers as Stephane mentioned. Stable means not likely to change, but eventually can change (and will as domain names are traded for money).
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: [...] 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.
Interesting reading in this context is an article by Michael J. O'Donnel, "Separate handles from names on the Internet", Communications of the ACM, Volume 48, Issue 12, pp. 78-83, December 2005.
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