On 08/07/2012 12:54 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
"Michael" == Michael Thomas <[email protected]> writes:
     Michael> Just checking, but we all think that naming is a separate
     Michael> issue from reachability, right?

It's separate.

The question is: does the set of names you can resolve depend upon the
connectivity that you have? (the "reachability")

I think that this is a form of security through obscurity, and I'd
rather that the various carriers who want to impose walled gardens on their
video-over-3G-to-smartphone systems (causing changes up to the
application layers) would do something different.

As a security property was mainly what I was getting at. We're
not thinking that .local is bringing us anything on the security
front wrt reachability (privacy being a different issue). So it
seems we all hopefully agree.

Now what to with about the privacy issue... bletch. .local[site]
has similar considerations along those lines it seems to me,
though the mechanisms are different confusing the issue even
more.

Mike


I overheard a snippit of conversation last week from Lorenzo about what
Android will be doing to "support" walled garden DNS.  I can't repeat
it, because I didn't hear the answer...





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