[29606] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PGP kerserver infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Jun 29 10:10:25 2000
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, pgp-keyserver-folk@flame.org
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 07:08:07 -0700
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>> thanks neil. the problem i see before scaling this up is how the
>> access/naming/referral works. a user wants to just say "look this up"
>> and not to have to think about how to choose from some magic list of
>> 42 possible servers.
> Its the same problem facing any distributed service. People have been
> throwing around various solutions, but I personally don't think any
> solution which doesn't let the client choose is ever going to work.
get outrageous and consider the v4 anycast hack. for an example see
<draft-ohta-root-servers-02.txt>.
randy
