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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
