Re: Comments on the Dec 19th IAHC draft

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 6:56 PM -0800 12/20/96, Dave Crocker wrote:

> 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.
>

Did I miss something at IETF about being forced to renumber every 60
days (or less)? :-(

I can think of one client that used IP addresses for 6 months until
InterNIC finally processed their application. Fortunately, the ISP let
them use 4LDs (<machine>.<customer>.<ISP>.TLD) for their machines after
the first three months. Maybe the IAHC could request that the
applicants ISP cover machine names for the first 60 days. This may
encourage .EDU-type sub-domaining, as opposed to immediately granting
2LDs, in the long term.


Simon

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