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I see what it says is pretty much similar to what I was writing on the matter of DNS some years ago :) Should be on record somewhere in NANOG archives. I do not claim that I'm the author of this idea, though. Unfortunately, I cannot remember how I acquired it :( Thank you for the pointer! --vadim On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, David G. Andersen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:50:51AM -0700, Vadim Antonov quacked: > > > > In fact, we do have an enormously useful and popular way of doing exactly > > that - this is called "search engines" and "bookmarks". What is needed is > > an infrastructure for allocation of unique semantic-free end point > > identifiers (to a large extent, MAC addresses may play this role, or, say, > > 128-bit random numbers), a way to translate EIDs to the topologically > > allocated IP addresses (a kind of simplified numbers-only DNS?) and a > > coordinated effort to change applications and expunge domain names from > > protocols, databases, webpages and such, replacing URLs containing domain > > names with URLs containing EIDs. > > Oh, you mean something like the Semantic Free Referencing project? > > http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/projects/sfr/ > > (Blatant plug for a friend's research, yes, but oh my god does it > seem relevant today) > > -Dave > >
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