user-relative names - was:[Re: Yahoo and IPv6]

Tue May 17 23:39:46 UTC 2011

On May 17, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Scott Brim wrote:

> On May 17, 2011 6:26 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 17 May 2011 15:04:19 PDT, Scott Weeks said:
>> 
>>> What about privacy concerns
>> 
>> "Privacy is dead.  Get used to it." -- Scott McNeely
> 
> Forget that attitude, Valdis. Just because privacy is blown at one level
> doesn't mean you give it away at every other one. We establish the framework
> for recovering privacy and make progress step by step, wherever we can.
> Someday we'll get it all back under control.

if you put something in the dns you do so because you want to discovered. scoping the nameservers such that they only express certain certain resource records to queriers in a particular scope is fairly straight forward.

> Scott
> 