North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Namespaces (was: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlayplay)
On 8 Mar 2001, Sean Donelan wrote: > Somewhere along the process, DNS changed from an address space to to subject > space. As an address space, having globally-unique identifiers is important; > but as a subject space, searching is more complicated because identifiers > aren't unique. That was inevitable. After all, FQDNs are human-readable. "For every problem there is a simple and obvious solution. Usually that solution is also wrong". Hierarchial name spaces is a choice example of obvious and wrong solution to global naming. > DNS is not, nor ever was intended to be a general purpose search tool. That > was X.400/X.500's job :-) Too bad they !*@!d it... > If someone wanted to do something interesting, they would come up with a > new RESOLVER library and interface which searched on something at a higher > level than DNS names. It is already done :) Yahoo, Google, Altavista, etc etc etc :) Just stop issuing alhpanumeric domain names and use numerals only. --vadim
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