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Re: Machine Identity

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Thu, 28 February 2008 16:41 UTC

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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:41:31 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: dcrocker@bbiw.net
Subject: Re: Machine Identity
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:37:06AM -0800,
 Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> wrote 
 a message of 31 lines which said:

>    Why isn't a Domain Name sufficient to the purpose you have in mind?

I agree with the reasons given by Keith Moore (a machine does not
control its domain name).

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