Re: An alternative to 6to4 and teredo

[Margaret Wasserman <mrw@windriver.com>]

> many applications involve more than two parties, even if the interconnections
> between components of those applications are two-party connections.  a >2
> component app often needs to be able to provide referrals from one component
> to another - e.g. to say "if you need to access this component, contact it at
> address A port P".
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and I wonder...  Why do these
referrals need to be by IP address?  It would make more sense to
refer another party to a DNS name and port number.  Then the other party
can do its own DNS look-up, and make its own address selection decision.

> if the network requires address selection in order to allow one component to
> reach another, then it hinders operation of this kind of application.
> and for a variety of reasons, DNS is often too ambiguous, too slow, or too
> unreliable for DNS names to be used as general-purpose names for hosts.
If DNS is too ambiguous, slow or unreliable for this purpose, shouldn't we
fix DNS?

Margaret