At 03:05 PM 7/27/99 , Jim Dixon wrote:
>Insofar as you are commenting upon this, you seem to have missed my
>narrow technical point. Roberto Gaetano asserted that an IP address
>uniquely identifies a domain name. This is not true. Sometimes a name
>corresponds to many IP addresses (as in round-robin DNS) and sometimes
>an IP address corresponds to many names (some Web servers permit many
>names to be associated with one IP address). The domain name system
>is not really like the telephone system.
I just had an interchange with Jon Weinberg on this
as he made similar errors in his Congressional
testimony. Since he was one of the more knowledgeable
behind the scenes players on loan to the US Gov,
it drives home the point that most if not all of
the government/institutional players going after
the "DNS meat" have essentially no understanding
about what they are dealing with.
As a result, many of the things now occurring are
simply based on vicarious personal conceptualizations
like the telephone system or political or personal
reactions.
--tony
