Re: Consensus on identifier/locator split?

[Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>]

Folks,

  
> >  Do we have consensus about splitting
> >  the address into locators and identifiers?  Note that
> >  I'm NOT asking about specifics, like "how big", "what
> >  mappings exist", "is it secure", etc. Do we agree that
> >  we want to go down this path?
>  
>  Is it good enough to say that I think we should explore
>  options in this area?
...  
>  But, I do think that this solution space is promising
>  enough to be worth investigating further.  Is that close
>  enough?


"Splitting the address"?  No.  

Carefully distinguishing the role of identifier from the role of locator? Yes.

My point is that there are quite a number of ways to satisfy that distinction 
and only some of them involve messing with IP Addresses.  For others, the public 
uses of IP Addresses are mostly restricted to locator.

--
Dave Crocker <dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com>
Brandenburg InternetWorking <http://brandenburg.com>