[Joker_vD]

> Addresses make notable examples. The “complex and idiosyncratic” Japanese address system reflects the organic growth of its urban areas. In British postal codes the final part can designate anything from a street to a flat depending on the amount of mail received by the premises.

Those systems are actually useful, you know. I have a friend who used to live at a place with address like "Northern Living Block, 157". There were about 300 total buildings in that block, and the numbers were assgined to the buildings pretty randomly, so it was impossible to navigate unless you were either given explicit directions, or had a map with you.

The routing info has to live somewhere, you know. Pushing it into the IDs means that you don't need to "have an entry in some database saying '1|INFRA|HOST|12' RUNS '1|APM|APPLICATION|23'", you don't have to update/delete it as needed, you don't need to look it up and deal with caching issues, etc.