On 13/03/2012, at 8:14 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 12 Mar 2012, at 21:15 , William Herrin wrote:
>
>> Not at all. You just build a second tier to the routing system.
>
> It's so strange how people think a locator/identifier split will solve the
> scalability problem. We already have two tiers: DNS names and IP addresses.
> So that didn't solve anything. I don't see any reason a second second tier
> would.
I think you have encountered an article of faith Iljitsch :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirectio: Any problem can be solved by
adding another layer of indirection.