[Brian_K_White]

External users is just one of several problems.

The essense of a thing still changes afer it's meaningful identifier was assigned, yet it's a problem to change a things identifier.

The identifier should be nothing other than an identifier. It's properties are both infinite and mutable.

As a baby admin I had the genius idea to name servers after the state they were in once we started renting racks scattered around the country. Completely stupid. oh3 and pa6 etc continued to exist as entities long after they had been migrated or failed-over to their hot backups in other locations.

I'm thick, so I still didn't get it when I realized the state names were wrong, and so the next plan was hostnames/cnames based on roles instead of physical location. Exactly the same problem.

Super simple baby example, and applies the same to everything else. It wasn't only stupid for that one case and reasonable in other cases. It's the same wrong in all cases.