baking into the protocol

John C Klensin klensin at jck.com
Fri Dec 22 15:16:18 CET 2006



--On Friday, 22 December, 2006 13:47 +0000 Michael Everson
<everson at evertype.com> wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> Is my advice and perspective on these matters any use at all?

Yes.  From my point of view, considerable use.  And my long note
about understanding DNS constraints was not intended to single
you out in any way.  

We just all need to remember that these discussions, to be
useful, must reflect some level of understanding of the DNS and
associated namespaces and the technical and operational
constraints they imply.  If, for example, one could look at
foo.bar.baz as a simple structured name -- hierarchical or
faceted (non-hierarchical or multi-hierarchical among other
things) -- then there would be all sorts of options for imposing
additional constraints that do not exist for the DNS...
precisely because the DNS is a strict hierarchy that is
administratively distributed.

Having these discussions while getting too far away from an
understanding of the DNS and its constraints takes us rather
quickly off into the proverbial weeds.  And that is just not an
optimal way to make progress.

    regards,
     john



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