Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
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.
Again you're talking about mail routing and addressing mechanisms when
the people that use DNS in their web browser are looking for a smart
search interface that understands better what they're after and why. Why
do those two applications have to use the same addressing scheme? Many
of the political problems with DNS have nothing to do with routing email
and have everything to do with the fact that its what your grandmother
is using as an interface.
Some of the other requirements are security requirements, and that's
what I do for a living.
Sure.... security requires a level of exactness that you shouldn't
burden the user with or else he won't use the system....
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.
And what I'm suggesting is that uniqueness is a requirement of networks
and system, not people. The issues the UN has with the way DNS is run
have to do with the fact that you're trying to apply a requirement of
the network to society and that creates problems. IMHO, we should look
at building a system that works the way people use identifiers and
identity and then get that to work with the existing network we have.
-MM
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