On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:26:54PM -0500, Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 27 lines which said: > If by "hostname" the authors mean DNS names, I would personally make a difference between the concept of a domain name and the protocol used to resolve them (today, mostly DNS). The domain names will probably stay for a very long time, now that people are used to it. The DNS may be replaced or partially replaced in the future by new protocols (such as P2P ones). So, I believe that the term of "DNS name" is confusing. > DNS is too slow and too often incorrect. See the remark above. If we replace DNS with a "better" protocol, would your objection still stand? > And while it's true that IP addresses don't have the right > semantics, neither do DNS names. Please elaborate. I agree that the current resolution protocol is not perfect but what is wrong with the semantics of domain names? _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf