RE: [icann-europe] Recommended Reading: Brad Templeton on ICANN and the DNS

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

> From: Lutz Donnerhacke [mailto:lutz@iks-jena.de]
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 7:16 AM
> 
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:09:15PM +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, at 16:03 [=GMT+0200], Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:03:02PM +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> > > > The DNS as we have it, will not go away, unless a real 
> alternative
> > > > comes up that satisfies everyone, including marketing managers. 
> > >
> > > There is no solution.
> >
> > Then we can stop talking about it.
> 
> Wrong conclusion. If there is no solution, it's worth asking 
> for the reasons.
> And they are clearly marked since years: Abuse of a 
> hierarchical system by
> applying multiple projections causing ambiguity.
> 
> There are two ways out:
>   - drop the uniqueness constraint or
>   - drop the all projections.
> 
> The latter one is not arguable, due to the implication: "You 
> should not name."

Agreed, dropping all the projecting is not feasible. It is the technology
that must adapt and comply.

> The first one is currently under discussion: It comes
> out that dropping this constraint converts the DNS
> into a search engine. But this consequence was
> not preferred, too.

This is only abhored by the ignorant. It turns out that having searchable
root zone servers may not be such a bad idea. It is the lawyers that are
against this. The search algorithms would be under technology control,
rather than political control. They are doing a rather good job of spreading
FUD about this. Note that, this idea was discussed back when DNS was first
designed. Many were of the opinion (self included) that it would be a good
phase 2 implementation feature. The problem is that we have too many that
have grown a vested interest in maintaining the phase 1 limitations. DNS
needs to evolve to the next level and searchable roots is a key feature
there.

FYI, Marc and I both operate our own root zone servers.

> Of course, there is a third way: Give the monopoly of the hierarchical
> system to the lawers. This is the way we are all going.

I disagree that this is the inevitable direction. I also disagree that this
is truely a third alternative. It is actually a variation on the first one,
where we stop projecting.


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