[ih] History of Naming on The Internet - is it still relevant?

[Noel Chiappa]

    > From: Joe Touch

Ghosts from the past - "endpoint IDs"; "endpoint ID / forwarding ID split";
"flat vs. structure names"; "name/locator split" - although it's unclear if
the _ideas_ referred to by these terms, here, are the same as the ones I had
in mind when I/we first dreamed them up. 

    > From: Karl Auerbach

    > In the world-wide-web context (HTTP/HTTPS) we've got a state identifier
    > that is useful for transport-spanning associations - cookies.

A common patttern in the TCP/IP 'world' - a problem exists, quickly throw
together something to deal with it, and over time the solution becomes
irretrievably embedded. See IPv4, BGP, etc.

Speaking of BGP, I wonder if networking as a field will ever come to accept
that doing path selection by exchanging 'routing tables' (as BGP does), and
not by exchanging map elements, was the wrong way to go? Maybe eventually,
although I don't think I'll be here to see it.

	Noel