Hi Zefram, On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Zefram wrote:
> George Gross wrote: > > At the risk of triggering another firestorm of pro/con debate, is > >there any reason why the centrally assigned Global ID defined by > >hinden-ipv6-global-local-addr-02.txt could not be simply the low-order 40 > >bits of a SHA hash of a domain name? i.e. if you own the domain name, you > >get the IP-v6 global ID for "free"? > > That sounds like a decent way of generating a locally assigned ID, but > it doesn't have the uniqueness guarantee that is the raison d'etre for > the central registry. You Have Missed The Point, as one of my favourite > games can be provoked into saying. hmmm... I'm not religous about whether the mechanism gets used locally only or centrally or both. For the central registry, could we define a reverse DNS lookup to verify the hash's uniquesness? Even if the first reverse DNS probe proved not to be unique, one could append a well-specified computed string, such as "0", "1", "2", ... to the domain name on each successive attempt, until the hash's uniqueness was confirmed. George > > -zefram > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
