Re: [Embedlets-dev] Re: Naming

[Holger B. <ho...@bi...>]

> Chris suggests:
>
>> It may actually make a lot of sense to use a DNS to keep a database 
>> of ips,
>> since that is what they do. It would be especially useful in a large
>> installation such as an oil refinery:
>
> That's true...but the guys deploying the devices may not have the 
> knowledge
> nor access to the corporate DNS servers. And the glass house guys 
> probably
> won't want to implement DNS lookups for thousands of devices.
>
> Be great if they did though. ;-)
>
>> There should be a name AND an identity (you may have stated this but 
>> I just
>> wanted to emphasize to point). The name is used for human consumption 
>> and can
>> change, the identity is fixed for the life of the configuration and 
>> is used
>> for internal reference.
>
> Why not just use a string based identiy that can be used for both?

Why do not use a SHA-1 value, use a PKI CA and X.509 certificates and 
you have with 20 bytes on the device a home-run, i think. Environments 
for this are already out there (ejbca at sf.net).

JAI

bax