On Aug 8, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Dan Wing wrote: >> 3) making sure that not everyone can associate the identity with that >> tag. > > Scott, > > Today's Internet users, which are not sharing addresses with other users, > are sending an uniquely-identifyable identifier to every Internet server > they use: their unique IP address.
Given how IP addresses are used today, an address alone is insufficient to indicate a host. That's the whole point of this doc. Addresses and ports together sometimes do, but not in all cases. Other IDs are required - again, the conclusion of this doc. Out-of-band IDs are problematic for many reasons, again as per Sec 5.9 Joe _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list Int-area@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
