[Catching up...] Christian Vogt wrote:
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?
Well, to me, central to the notion of the Internet architecture and more specifically to a routing architecture is the notion of topology. It would seem somewhat challenging to be able to describe topology without being able to describe a graph. And if we want to be able to describe a graph, we need to be able to articulate the nodes and edges in that graph. I don't see how to do this with just service identifiers.
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