nanog mailing list archives
Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch
From: bdragon () gweep net
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:39:27 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Mathias K?rber 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.
Current thread:
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch, (continued)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 16)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Mike Tancsa (Sep 16)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch David Lesher (Sep 17)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Paul Vixie (Sep 16)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch John Brown (Sep 16)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Sean Donelan (Sep 16)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Daniel Karrenberg (Sep 17)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Vadim Antonov (Sep 17)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Mathias Körber (Sep 17)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Vadim Antonov (Sep 17)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch bdragon (Sep 17)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch E.B. Dreger (Sep 17)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Vadim Antonov (Sep 17)
- RE: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch David Schwartz (Sep 17)
- RE: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Vadim Antonov (Sep 17)
- RE: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Mike Leber (Sep 17)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch bdragon (Sep 18)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Justin Shore (Sep 17)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Aaron Dewell (Sep 17)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch bdragon (Sep 18)
- Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch Mr. James W. Laferriere (Sep 18)