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In most cases DNS (Domain Name Service) can't be used directly. DNS was designed to map between IP-addresses and human readable domain names. DNS is not able to handle identifier from various IoT protocols. It is also not possible to propagate changes in a very short time.But DNS has a outstanding governance process that ensures unique identifiers. So DNS is at least part of most mapping processes. In our example DNS might be used to find the company domain of the lamp management or the address of the REST API.
What are the challenges of Identiy in the Internet of Things?
The challenges can be grouped in
- Ownership and identity relationships
- Object Identifier and Namespace
- Authentication and Authorization
- Governance of data and Privacy
see details in our paper The Identity of Things discussion group
What is special about identites in the Internet of Things? (a loose collection of special topics in IdM in IoT....)
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