[35437] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Namespaces (was: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Gifford)
Thu Mar 8 20:17:18 2001
To: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Scott Gifford <sgifford@tir.com>
Date: 08 Mar 2001 19:54:42 -0500
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Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net> writes:
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> A better method for addressing data would be based on source-brokered,
> signed, distributed caches of keywords that can be search and, more
> importantly, bookmarked in the context of each signer.
I'm not sure I want something that elaborate to ftp a file from my
laptop to my desktop. And I certainly don't want to have to remember
IP addresses for both of them.
I think DNS works pretty well. You just have to think of it like an
800 number --- 800 numbers are ambiguous (1-800-CONTACTS could provide
information about how to contact people, information about aliens
contacting the earth, or information about the old PBS show 3-2-1
Contact!, but it in fact sells contact lenses), but they're still
easier to remember than the digits.
------ScottG.
