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On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 [email protected] wrote: > > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Mathias Körber wrote: > > > > > > If we take a step back, we could say that the whole Verisign incident > > > > demonstrated pretty clearly that the fundamental DNS premise of having no > > > > more than one root in the namespace is seriously wrong. This is the > > > > fallacy of "universal classification" so convincingly trashed by > > > > J.L.Borges in "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins". Sigle-root > > > > classifications simply do not work in real-world contexts. > > > > > ... for objects which are created outside said classification and need > > > to/ want to/should be classified in it. However, the DNS does not > > > pretend to classify anything existing outside it in the real-world but > > > implements a namespace with the stated goal of providing unique > > > identification (which still requires a single-root) > > > > Technically, DNS encodes the authority delegation, _and_ tries to attach > > human-readable labels to every entity accessible by the Internet. > > > > If the goal were unique identification, MAC addresses would do just fine. > > No need for DNS. > > MAC addresses are not without authority delegation. The IEEE is the ultimate > authority in said case. > > Any solution which requires uniqueness also requires a singular ultimate > authority. Even MACs aren't entirely unique. Some places used to assign MAC addresses like they assigned IP addresses and the NIC had to be reconfigured for the assigned MAC. An admin was freely able to assign a MAC to Joe Blow using a 3Com or Cisco OUI without fear of retribution. I personally have never seen any use in such a thing but obviously someone did. Justin
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