DNS alternatives (was Re: Dan Kaminsky)
Roland Dobbins
rdobbins at arbor.net
Wed Aug 5 14:43:31 UTC 2009
On Aug 5, 2009, at 9:32 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> We might have an alternative one day, but it's going to happen by
> accident, through generalization of an internal naming service
> employed by a widely-used application.
Or even more likely, IMHO, that more and more applications will have
their own naming services which will gradually reduce the perceived
need for a general-purpose system - i.e., the centrality of DNS won't
be subsumed into any single system (remember X.500?), but, rather, by
a multiplicity of systems.
[Note that I'm not advocating this particular approach; I just think
it's the most likely scenario.]
Compression/conflation of the transport stack will likely be both a
driver and an effect of this trend, over time.
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