[8320] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Domain Rant.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip J. Nesser II)
Fri Mar 21 13:59:52 1997
From: "Philip J. Nesser II" <pjnesser@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
To: paul@vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 13:47:29 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199703211727.JAA23002@wisdom.home.vix.com> from "Paul A Vixie" at Mar 21, 97 09:27:54 am
Paul A Vixie supposedly said:
>
> > Someone else said:
> > It is quite possible for everyone to maintain ".". Then, there would be no
> > need for root domain servers; HOWEVER, this would take massive cooperation
> > throughout the industy, which will never happen.
>
> I said "one authority". That means "one definition of its content". Sure,
> if everybody in the industry could agree on all changes, even minor little
> "add an NS" or "change an NS" changes, then they could all run "." as primary
> masters. But there would still be only one authority.
I have an excellent idea. If we can all work together like this, why don't
we just put all the hostnames and IP addresses, and all sorts of other info
in a flat file that people could get off of a common ftp (or web) site. We
could call such a file HOSTS.TXT. I think it could work...
:-)
---> Phil
