Re: GSE

[Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>]

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>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Li <Tony.Li@procket.com> writes:
    >> From an _engineering_ viewpoint, the hostname is not easy
    Tony> to manipulate as an identifier.  It is variable length and
    Tony> we've decided on a fixed length field in our headers.  If it
    Tony> is of any length at all, it's likely to be longer than a 
    Tony> numeric identifier would be and in that sense is inefficient.

    Tony> However, a numeric identifier of sufficient and fixed length
    Tony> that had a 1:1 mapping with hostnames would work perfectly.

  How about a 128-bit number, derived from some convenient nearby landmark,
or cross street? 

  Like a domain name, it may have no real meaning as a locator, only as a
end-point identifier. But, like a domain name, (such as mine), it provide
some geographic notion of where I am, even if that doesn't tell you which
AS# will get you here. Or like "procket.com", it might be assigned by an
organization on a first-come, first-served basis, and tell me nothing really,
about where you are.

  It also fits nicely into both AAAA and A6 RR records, and has a well
defined reverse mapping to a hostname.  

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