[17763] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WorldNIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James R. Cutler)
Wed Jun 10 23:36:07 1998
In-Reply-To: <19980609155532.24519@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 07:14:12 -0400
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
From: "James R. Cutler" <James.Cutler@iscg.eds.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
DNS Names are identifiers for resource records in Domain Name Service. They are addresses only in that they specify a location in a namespace. The hierarchical nature of DNS Names provides a means to delegate the authority and mangement of these identifiers.
JimC
At 3:55 PM -0400 6/9/98, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
<snip>
>... DNS names are actually _addresses_, and can't be
>expected to map one to one with names in the large; this is an attempt
>to soften the impact of that problem.
>
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