[62298] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David G. Andersen)
Wed Sep 17 11:49:19 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:47:20 -0400
From: "David G. Andersen" <dga@lcs.mit.edu>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:50:51AM -0700, Vadim Antonov quacked:
>
> In fact, we do have an enormously useful and popular way of doing exactly
> that - this is called "search engines" and "bookmarks". What is needed is
> an infrastructure for allocation of unique semantic-free end point
> identifiers (to a large extent, MAC addresses may play this role, or, say,
> 128-bit random numbers), a way to translate EIDs to the topologically
> allocated IP addresses (a kind of simplified numbers-only DNS?) and a
> coordinated effort to change applications and expunge domain names from
> protocols, databases, webpages and such, replacing URLs containing domain
> names with URLs containing EIDs.
Oh, you mean something like the Semantic Free Referencing project?
http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/projects/sfr/
(Blatant plug for a friend's research, yes, but oh my god does it
seem relevant today)
-Dave
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