Peter Thomassen wrote on 2022-08-13 09:23:
On 8/13/22 11:57, John R Levine wrote:
...
It's not a technical problem, it's a social or political one. People
have projects outside the DNS and want to name them with DNS names.
Sometimes you can't have what you want.
The issue is *precisely* that they want dotted *names*, *not* DNS names,
but there is overlap in namespace.
warren explained this. domain names are older than the dns. hosts.txt
had them. to be a "domain" name just means it has hierarchy in that each
name is within some domain of other related names. sri-nic.arpa was a
domain name. its parent domain was arpa. all of this preceded the dns.
what people want is domain names. right now dns camps onto the whole
space of domain names, because it expected to be the last and final
deliverer of domain names. it's called the "domain name system" after all.
dns should decamp from some part of the domain name space, so that
naming research using domain names can continue beyond dns. warren
explained that this was his goal with the ".alt" name reservation.
we don't need new terminology ("dotted names") to talk about domain
names, which are older in concept and implementation than the dns is.
--
P Vixie
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