In message <433DA1BD.1060707@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Michael Mealling writes: >Steven M. Bellovin wrote: >Reexamine the premises.... > I am -- these are my premises. I lived far too long in the uucp world to enjoy non-unique names; they led to nothing but trouble. Some of the other requirements are security requirements, and that's what I do for a living. I agree that the current DNS has serious problems, most notably in the trademark sphere. That doesn't mean that its other premises are wrong; there are other navigational systems that yield unique results besides treees. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf