Roberto and all,
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> Jim,
>
> You wrote (answering Mark's message):
> >
> > Insofar as you are commenting upon this, you seem to have missed my
> > narrow technical point. Roberto Gaetano asserted that an IP address
> > uniquely identifies a domain name. This is not true.
>
> Speaking about missing the points, I come back to this issue because you
> raised it again. The point I was making in my original note was completely
> incorrelated with whether an IP address uniquely identifies a domain name or
> not.
>
> You picked the sentence:
>
> > I find the analogy with the phone system (as you present it) not fully
> > applicable, as the phone number is a "key" in the system, and
> > therefore
> > unique due to the way that the system is built, while the
> > domain name is an
> > "attribute" of the unique key (the IP address), and therefore could be
> > duplicated.
>
> - snip -
>
> The example was aimed at showing that while the telephone numbers are
> unique, domain names are not if we allow multiple independent roots.
This statement again is factually incorrect as well Roberto. Multiple
roots have nothing what so ever to do with the uniqueness of a DN...
>
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