[9400] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Root Name Server Confederations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Black)
Tue May 20 19:42:55 1997
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 18:55:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199705202315.QAA02958@wisdom.home.vix.com>
>
> i guess i've said this about 900 times now. DNS is a coherent, distributed
> database. don't do anything that will make it less coherent. don't lets
> start back in on things that will make the same name mean something different
> (or become meaningless) depending on where you're standing when you resolve
> it.
>
actually, a name meaning something different depending on where you are
when you resolve it actually can be a very good thing. just not in the
context of multiple "." domains under independent control.
b3n
