RE: the 9 step program

[<john.loughney@nokia.com>]

Hi Iljitsch,

> > Could you clarify what you mean by user below?  Is it what is
> > exposed to the application or something else.  User can imply
> > human user, but I am not so sure about your meaning.
> 
> Yes, I mean the human user. I suppose there are some applications where 
> there are no user-visible names or addresses, but usually there is: the 
> FQDN part of an URL, the FQDN part of an email address, the FQDN used 
> in telnet/ftp/ssh, various server names/addresses... The interesting 
> part is that this is usually a character string that can either be a 
> simple hostname, an FQDN, a literal IPv4 address or a literal IPv6 
> address.

OK, so your point was:

> 1. The name or address value as it appears to the user. (FQDN, textual 
> representation of an IPv4 or IPv6 address, port number usually 
> implied.)

WRT to Multi6, I think that this should be a non-goal - you seem to
be pre-supposing that the user may see the name.  I would imagine
we have many possiblities, not restricted to:

1) URI, FQDN, etc. <-> multi6 name <-> IP address used (shim layer)
2) Multi6 address is in the form of some URI, FQDN, etc. (application level address)
3) Multi6 address is in the form of an IP address (something like HIP)

I'm not sure worry about this point is useful.

thanks,
John