ed, how would you suggest to resolve an email address if it returns ambiguous results? v At 03:51 PM 7/30/2002 -0700, Ed Gerck wrote: >And I am waiting to hear some substantive technical arguments why a >name query cannot have more than one answer and still be resolvable, >when everything else we ask in life has more than one answer and yet >we are able to resolve them. To set the groundwork for an attempt to such >answer, let me recall that the DNS seems to be the only logical system that >tries to be both complete and resolvable, when we know for a mathematical >fact that these two qualities do not go together for a system with a complexity >larger than arithmetics. Vint Cerf SVP Architecture & Technology WorldCom 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, F2-4115 Ashburn, VA 20147 703 886 1690 (v806 1690) 703 886 0047 fax