[62354] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bdragon@gweep.net)
Wed Sep 17 18:40:07 2003
To: avg@kotovnik.com (Vadim Antonov)
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:39:27 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0309171448580.29967-100000@gato.kotovnik.com> from "Vadim Antonov" at Sep 17, 2003 03:17:18 PM
From: bdragon@gweep.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Mathias Körber 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)
>
> Technically, DNS encodes the authority delegation, _and_ tries to attach
> human-readable labels to every entity accessible by the Internet.
>
> If the goal were unique identification, MAC addresses would do just fine.
> No need for DNS.
MAC addresses are not without authority delegation. The IEEE is the ultimate
authority in said case.
Any solution which requires uniqueness also requires a singular ultimate
authority.
