Hi Michael, The difficulty with your proposal is that the homenet address space is now connected to the wider internet.
Services in the home must be discoverable without any internet connectivity. Don On 6/29/12 11:27 AM, "Michael Thomas" <[email protected]> wrote: >On 06/29/2012 08:34 AM, Ralph Droms wrote: >> >> a) Homenet name-service MUST NOT interfere with Internet name-service >> "Internet name-service"? Do you mean "DNS"? "Co-exist" might be a >> better word. Users want a single interface into naming and don't >> want to have to differentiate between "naming stuff on my local network" >> and "naming stuff in the Internet". Ted Lemon raised this issue much >> more eloquently during the WG meeting. >> >> I'll add my first bullet here, rephrased a little: >> >> a.1) Relative name resolution: some naming convention that allows name >> resolution while mitigating the need to know an absolute location in the >> Internet name-service >> >>> b) Homenet name-service MUST NOT be in Internet name space. >> How are things in the home identified from outside the homenet? >> > >Maybe I can add some fuel to Olafur's fire. I'd like to say that the >homenet name service MUST be DNS. > >This may sound like heresy, but here's my reason: I want the ability >to transition from a private name space to a public name space with >minimal fuss. I don't want a different naming mechanism that has >its own oddities just because I can't think up a clever domain name >for my home net that goes into the global DNS when I'm forced to >install my router. When I'm finally inspired, I want to be able to make >that transition and then worry about the split horizon implications >(if I even get around to caring about such a thing). > >So perhaps, we can make use of statistically unique naming to keep >things from bumping into one another, etc... this is sort of off the cuff, >but the real point is not having to transmogrify one naming scheme into >another. Yuck. > >Mike >_______________________________________________ >homenet mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
