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Naming, Assigning and Registering Identifiers in a Locator/Identifier-Split Internet Architecture

Authors:
Christoph Spleiß
Gerald Kunzmann

Keywords: Locator/ID-split, schemes, Content Addressing

Abstract:
Splitting the IP-address into locator and identifier seems to be a promising approach for a Future Internet Architecture. Although this solution addresses the most critical issues of today’s architecture, new challenges arise through the necessary mapping system to resolve identifiers into the corresponding locators. In this work, we give an overview of a scheme how to name identifiers not only for hosts, but basically for anything that needs to be identified in a future Internet. Our approach is based on the HiiMap locator/ID split Internet architecture and supports user-friendly identifiers for hosts, content, and persons and does not rely on DNS. We show how the registration and assignment for identifiers is handled and which modifications in the network stack are necessary. Furthermore, a possible solution for a lookup mechanism that can deal with spelling mistakes and typing errors in order to improve the quality of experience to the user is provided.

Pages: 111 to 122

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2011. Used with permission.

Publication date: April 30, 2012

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2652