Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch

[Vadim Antonov <avg () kotovnik com>]

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