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Re: PGP kerserver infrastructure

  • From: Randy Bush
  • Date: Thu Jun 29 10:11:28 2000 
>> thanks neil.  the problem i see before scaling this up is how the
>> access/naming/referral works.  a user wants to just say "look this up"
>> and not to have to think about how to choose from some magic list of
>> 42 possible servers.
> Its the same problem facing any distributed service. People have been
> throwing around various solutions, but I personally don't think any
> solution which doesn't let the client choose is ever going to work.

get outrageous and consider the v4 anycast hack.  for an example see
<draft-ohta-root-servers-02.txt>.

randy