On 2010-01-20 02:08, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
> With ILNP (and probably some of the other proposals that use DNS) there
> are not two kinds of addresses.
> The addresses used for DNS servers are just like the ones used for the
> rest of the system.
> The only difference in ILNP is that clients get thos I/L pairs directly
> rather than needing to do a DNS lookup to get the pair of fields.
The circularity rule [RFC1958], which iirc was drafted by Jon Postel,
actually says:
3.11 Circular dependencies must be avoided.
For example, routing must not depend on look-ups in the Domain
Name System (DNS), since the updating of DNS servers depends on
successful routing.
It does seem that ILNP satisfies this; I'm not sure that all the schemes
that use DNS for mapping do so.
Brian
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