A modest proposal.

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 15:45 -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote:

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> Clicking on a link of this form would add this person to your buddy
> list.  Communicating with a this form of buddy would, in parallel, (a)
> attempt to contact the IPv6 Link-Local address formed from the lower
> 64 bits of the SHA-256 of the complete friend domain string (not
> including the URI scheme or colon) and (b) attempt to look up the
> hostname and contact the IPv4 or IPv6 address returned.  (If the DNS
> responds, you SHOULD use this address for further communication in
> this session, since it may persist even if you roam off your current
> mesh.)  A simple service at a well-known port would confirm status and
> list sharable activities.

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Scott, could you write a bit about the higher level use cases this would
be useful in?

Thanks,

Tomeu