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Re: Thinking differently about names and addresses

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Tue, 01 April 2003 13:18 UTC

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Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:08:06 +0200
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
To: Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
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Subject: Re: Thinking differently about names and addresses
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--On mandag, mars 31, 2003 16:44:35 -0800 Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net> 
wrote:

> In any event, please note that the suggestion that applications are
> required to use names, rather than IP addresses, is new.
>
> Completely new.
>
> As in, it has not been part of the Internet architecture for the past 25
> years.

RFC 1958, June 1996:

4. Name and address issues

   4.1 Avoid any design that requires addresses to be hard coded or
   stored on non-volatile storage (except of course where this is an
   essential requirement as in a name server or configuration server).
   In general, user applications should use names rather than addresses.

yes, "required" is new, and IMHO unspportable.

                    Harald

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