Re: Comments on the Dec 19th IAHC draft

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@imc.org>]

At 4:48 PM -0800 12/20/96, Simon Higgs wrote:
>I don't think it's a silly idea. I think it's an absurd idea. If you
>don't have a domain name, you use an IP address. It's very, very,

	You are certainly not alone in this view.  The problem with the
view, as I see it, is that IP addressess are not sufficiently persistent.
The reason we have system names as being separate from system addresses is
to keep the name reference independent of topological considerations.
Using an IP address directly breaks that assumption.  Even 60 days is too
long to require an ip address to be persistent, IMO.

d/


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