On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Barry Shein <b...@world.std.com> wrote: > It's occured to you that FQDNs contain some structured information, > no?
It has occurred to me that the name on my shirt's tag contains some structured information. That doesn't make it particularly well suited for use as a computer network routing key. Or suited at all. On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Barry Shein <b...@world.std.com> wrote: > you can take a new idea and run with it a bit, or just > resist it right from the start. Intentionally crashing the moon into the earth is a new idea. How far should we run with it before concluding that it not only isn't a very good one, considering it hasn't taught us anything we didn't already know? > Van Jacobson had a similar observation vis a vis TCP and PPP header > compression, why keep sending the same bits back and forth over a PPP > link for example? Why not just an encapsulation which says "same as > previous"? > > Now, how can that be generalized? By observing that within a restricted subset of a problem domain there may be usable techniques that aren't portable to the broader problem domain. This is not news, and your comments have not bounded a subset of the routing problem domain in a way that would make a discussion of names as routing keys interesting. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
