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Re: Machine Identity

Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> Thu, 28 February 2008 16:51 UTC

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To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
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Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> 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).

More importantly: the service can't be anonymous then.

Greets,
  Jeroen

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