Re: (!) Vint Cerf designing network for solar system (!)

[Bob Hinden <[e-mail]>]

>only problem is, as soon as you separate addresses and locators, you
>need a cheap, reliable, and reasonably secure (hard to spoof) way to 
>map locators back to addresses.  afaik, nobody has demonstrated a good 
>way to do this.  DNS is almost certainly not the answer - it's too 
>unreliable, too slow, and too easy to get out of sync with reality.  

A good analysis of the issues involved in separating identifiers and
locators in addresses can be found in:

	Title		: Separating Identifiers and Locators in Addresses:  
                       An Analysis of the GSE Proposal for IPv6
	Author(s)	: M. Crawford, A. Mankin, T. Narten, 
                      J. Stewart, L. Zhang
	Filename	: draft-ietf-ipngwg-esd-analysis-04.txt
	Pages		: 50
	Date		: 17-Feb-99

Bob