On Jun 29, 2012, at 5:09 PM 6/29/12, Joe Touch wrote:

> 
> 
> On 6/29/2012 1:09 PM, Ralph Droms wrote:
>> 
>> On Jun 29, 2012, at 3:58 PM 6/29/12, james woodyatt wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jun 29, 2012, at 11:27 , Michael Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe I can add some fuel to Olafur's fire. I'd like to say that the 
>>>> homenet name service MUST be DNS.
>>> 
>>> Let's go further.  Let's say that it must be DNS-Based Service Discovery 
>>> [I-D.cheshire-dnsext-dns-sd], which has been in the RFC Editor Queue for 
>>> 199 days at this point, so one imagines that it stands a decent chance of 
>>> being a published RFC by the time HOMENET finishes its first round of major 
>>> work.
>> 
>> Well, DNS-Based Service Discovery addresses just one kind of requirement: 
>> listing entities that provide a certain kind of service; perhaps 
>> generalizable to resolution based on a characteristic or set of 
>> characteristics that might return more than one response to the resolution 
>> request.  At some point, there needs to be a mechanism for resolving an 
>> identity to a single IP address.
> 
> Why? if the DNS gives multiple answers, they're intended to be equivalent for 
> that service.

Sure...I should have said "resolve an identity to an IP address or address(es)".

- Ralph

> 
> Joe

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