Re: identity persistence and comparison issues

Many thanks Joe - I'd be willing to use these points.


   Geoff

At 05:12 AM 15/06/2004, Joe Touch wrote:
>Hi, all,
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>Here are the issues I sent separately to Elliot Lear to add to his 'q&a' 
>draft, which might overlap some of the content of Geoff Huston's...
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>Some additional questions came to mind; use at your own risk...
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>1. you ask if a solution can be aggregated
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>     this presumes that aggregation is beneficial,
>     i.e., it would be useful to add
>     "is aggregation useful or necessary to the solution?"
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>2. you asked about load on nameserver. based on some solutions I've seen, 
>it would be useful to ask:
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>     does the solution create an alterate DNS-like service?
>     should this be separate from or part of the DNS?
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>3. does the endpoint ID change on the fly or is it static/cacheable?
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>     specific variants of this issue:
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>     a) are two IDs comparable within the same app over time?
>         i.e., can an ID change? if so, can the old ID be used?
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>     b) can two IDs on different apps on the same node be compared?
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>     c) can two IDs on different nodes be compared?
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>this specifically affects debugging, logging, and caching.
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>Joe
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