The Next Big Thing: Named-Data Networking

Mon Sep 8 17:41:44 UTC 2014

Well, it's a good thing we have you around to keep us honest.

On September 8, 2014 at 07:37 mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) wrote:
 > Barry Shein wrote:
 > 
 > > Understand these were speaking notes and it was safe to assume the
 > > audience basically understood DNS so it wasn't my intention to give an
 > > exhaustive introduction to how DNS works.
 > 
 > Surprisingly many people who basically understand DNS have the
 > same misunderstanding as you, which is why some people believe
 > in NDN.
 > 
 > > There also seems to be some splitting of hairs over the meaning of
 > > "site" in your response. That is, some sort of physical boundary vs an
 > > authoritative boundary.
 > 
 > Then, "site" based FQDN can not be used for scalable routing.
 > 
 > > At any rate my proposal doesn't eliminate hierarchical addresses,
 > 
 > See above.
 > 
 > > One could use the FQDNs themselves as hierarchical
 > > addresses at least as an external representation.
 > 
 > You are trying to define something not usable for scalable
 > routing a hierarchical address, which is as bad as your
 > attempt to distort the definition of "site".
 > 
 > 						Masataka Ohta

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        -Barry Shein

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