Pekka,

> Pekka Savola wrote:
> One idea IMO is that we don't even want to be aim for
> total, provable, complete uniqueness.
> Looking at some requirements, I believe "unique enough"
> is good enough.
> Take your name, address, phonenumber or whatever (it
> must be long enough, though), apply a hash function
> and BAM -- there you have "unique enough" site-id
> identifier.  No need for any registrations etc.

This is a valid approach also. However, one might argue that it would be
nice to do it the right way and make them truly unique if it is not too
much of a hassle. 


> But I don't think we should be providing _globally
> routable_ addresses in the first place.  They answer
> some other problems than the one that's an argument in
> the site-local discussion.

Strongly agree.

Michel.


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