[62353] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Wed Sep 17 18:33:55 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:31:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
To: "David G. Andersen" <dga@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030917154720.GC36727@lcs.mit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I see what it says is pretty much similar to what I was writing on the
matter of DNS some years ago :) Should be on record somewhere in NANOG
archives.
I do not claim that I'm the author of this idea, though. Unfortunately, I
cannot remember how I acquired it :(
Thank you for the pointer!
--vadim
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, David G. Andersen wrote:
> 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
>
>
