[rrg] [Hipsec-rg] reverse DNS lookups of HITs

[Xu Xiaohu]

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> > When HIP gets widely deployed and there are millions of users, we 
> > might hope to use more resources :)
> > 
> 
> This type of question is precisely what this research group's 
> primary charter is to answer, in my opinion.  What are the 
> consequences of deploying HIP on a large scale in the 
> Internet?  If it means that we will have a few root servers 
> handling reverse DNS queries for all hosts, without any 
> aggregation, how will that architecture scale, and how will 
> the deployment incentives work?  

Hi Tom,

That's why I suggested the flat HIT should be modified to have some
structure during the IETF72 meeting. The thread is as follows:

https://listserv.cybertrust.com/pipermail/hipsec-rg/2008-July/000509.html

Xiaohu