On 13/03/2012, at 8:14 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 12 Mar 2012, at 21:15 , William Herrin wrote: > >> Not at all. You just build a second tier to the routing system. > > It's so strange how people think a locator/identifier split will solve the > scalability problem. We already have two tiers: DNS names and IP addresses. > So that didn't solve anything. I don't see any reason a second second tier > would.
I think you have encountered an article of faith Iljitsch :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirectio: Any problem can be solved by adding another layer of indirection.