At Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:58:33 -0500, Keith Moore wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:26:47 -0500 > "J. Noel Chiappa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: Keith Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > HIP only solves part of the problem ... it doesn't provide any > > > way of mapping between that identity and an address where you > > > can reach the host. > > > > A system doesn't have to provide mechanisms to look up mappings from > > <any-name> to <any-other-name> to be useful; > > agreed. but it does need to provide such mechanisms in order to provide > useful endpoint identifiers. without a mechanism to map the endpoint > identifier to an IP address, such identifiers are useless in referrals > between application components.
Correct, if you assume that there will be situations in which you only have the endpoint identifier and you need the IP address. That's not the only conceivable way of passing around a referal, it's just the one that's closest to being a drop-in replacement for a referal mechanism based on raw IP addresess. In other words, whether you need this particular mapping depends on precisely how you intend to use the endpoint identifiers, which is what I think Noel was saying.
