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Re: identifier uniqueness

On Tuesday, Nov 5, 2002, at 16:47 America/Montreal, Masataka Ohta wrote:

The point of the load balancer is that, viewed from the other end
of the communication, the entity corresponding to www.<foo>.com
behaves as if it is globally unique, 100% of the time.

But many of them do NOT behave that way...


A single entity consistently maintains TCP/HTTP state that the other
end assumes that the ID is globally unique.

Not true of a lot of such systems deployed today.

Ran