On 2-sep-2005, at 0:17, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
Flight of imagination: DNSSEC-Signed records (with the SIG/KEY chain in additional data?) would seem to be one possibility to "prove" that the data being presented was "legitimate" under DNS delegation rules, even when you don't have a present connection to the Internet.
Right. I'm looking forward to seeing a protocol that incorporates this notion.
My imagination doesn't fly far enough at this time of night to figure out any relationship beteen a ".local" name and the term "legitimacy". But it's late in the evening, so my imagination is not flying very far - perhaps mDNS works because they deliberately abandoned the idea of name ownership.
Don't forget that the purpose of multicast DNS / Zeroconf / Rendezvous / Bonjour is service discovery. When you've discovered a service it's helpful to be able to refer to it by name, but the whole name lookup thing seems almost incidental.
YMMV.
Well, isn't the purpose of a standards organization to make sure that even though your milage may vary, at least you know whether those miles are 1609 or 1852 meters in length?
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