On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 11:27:45AM -0700, william manning wrote: > You need a better imagination then. mDNS is a crippled DNS implementation > that was hobbled on purpose. HS was/is an entirely different addressing > scheme that emerged from project Athena @ MIT. To the extent that when all > you have been given is the IN class and it's associated rooted hierarchy, > you first,second,&third inclination is to treat EVERYTHING as being easily > integrated into that model. And the ietf is going to go right along with > you. After all, when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a > nail. Did you read what I wrote?? The thing I'm having trouble imagining is distinct from the things that you list that I also listed (and then lecture about as if I had no idea what they were). A peer-to-peer DNS might be mDNS-like without whatever crippling you have in mind, but it's still difficult to imagine how to organize a coherent Internet around it. And as to web of trust, I don't see how that would work either. You decry my lack of imagination but provide none of your own. Nico --