[6834] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Domain names for ISP infrastructure links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Wed Jan 8 01:46:24 1997
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 22:42:04 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: jcurran@bbnplanet.com, jstewart@metro.isi.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.net
That may sound silly, but there's a merit in the
idea that domain names can successfully replace the
SNMP's object IDs. SNMP and DNS then become the same
protocol.
In fact, all protocols requiring exchange of some request
and getting some reply from a uniquely named object can
be made a particular case of a generic protocol. There's
no reason for Internet to be a hodge-podge of specialized
kludges. In most cases, it only takes an ability for DNS
to "hand off" the continuation of name resolution to
application programs.
See -- i don't think everything Plan 9-ish is pure crap.
--vadim
From: John Curran <jcurran@bbnplanet.com>
No... we're going to mandate OID-style router names
for the world's Internet providers:
<isoc-tree>.<internet-infrastructure branch>.
<iso country code>.<city ordinal>.<provider #>.
<facility #>.<rack #>.<shelf #>.<router ordinal>
Great fun to watch (it could be happening this way
in the alternate universe next door.)
;-)
/John
