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Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mathias_K=F6rber?=)
Wed Sep 17 10:39:04 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:35:40 +0800
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mathias_K=F6rber?= <mathias@koerber.org>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0309170031580.26512-100000@gato.kotovnik.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On Wednesday, September 17, 2003 02:50:51 AM -0700 Vadim Antonov
<avg@kotovnik.com> wrote:
>
>
> If we take a step back, we could say that the whole Verisign incident
> demonstrated pretty clearly that the fundamental DNS premise of having no
> more than one root in the namespace is seriously wrong. This is the
> fallacy of "universal classification" so convincingly trashed by
> J.L.Borges in "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins". Sigle-root
> classifications simply do not work in real-world contexts.
>
... for objects which are created outside said classification and need to/
want to/should be classified in it. However, the DNS does not pretend to
classify
anything existing outside it in the real-world but implements a namespace
with the stated goal of providing unique identification (which still
requires
a single-root)
So this argument is bogus IMHO...
matjes
