Is host identification most useful for fault finding?
Louise -
Absolutely. In fact, there is a richness of purposes for which one may
need identifiers. What I claim is that most of those purposes are
application-specific and not essential to an Internet architecture. For
example, fault finding is the purpose of a debugging application.
An Internet architecture must be versatile enough to enable applications
to use their own identifiers. But to do this, the Internet architecture
itself must incorporate identifiers for only two purposes: to
identify a
peer service for contact establishment, and to identify a session
instantiated during contact establishment. On top of that, applications
can do what they want, such as providing a means to identify hosts for
fault finding. Does this make sense?
- Christian
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