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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Multiple Roots are "a good thing" - Karl Auerbach
In message <[email protected]>, Greg A. Woods writes: > >[ On Sunday, March 18, 2001 at 14:23:26 (-0500), Miles Fidelman wrote: ] >> Subject: Re: Multiple Roots are "a good thing" - Karl Auerbach >> >> I would suggest that telephone books/directories are not an appropriate >> analogy. Rather, DNS is a lot closer to the internal plumbing of the net - >> more akin to Signalling System #7. I'd guess that for 95% or more of phone >> calls, the caller already knows the numeric phone number in question - >> while for the Internet, very few people give their email addresses as >> [email protected] or http://207.226.172.79. Telephone directories >> are optional in most cases, DNS is not. > >You are absolutely correct. :-) > >Telephone directories are most definitely *not* like the DNS. A domain >name is more like a telephone number itself, and as you say the IP >numbers are more like the underlying circuit routing glue in something >like SS#7. We really do not have a "telephone directory" for the >Internet (unless you count WHOIS/RWHOIS). Right. And even for phone numbers, there's a single authority controlling the space. Internationally, it's the ITU; within the U.S./ Candadian zone, it's the North American Number Plan Administrator. And its problem has been too little supervision -- see http://www.bergen.com/biz/codes18200103181.htm --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb |