|There's no doubt Jon felt strongly about this. I'm not sure whether he |or Lixia was the originator of the following words in RFC 1958: | | 3.11 Circular dependencies must be avoided. | | For example, routing must not depend on look-ups in the Domain | Name System (DNS), since the updating of DNS servers depends on | successful routing. | |It might have been Lixia, because the point was explicit in her report |of the plenary discussion at IETF 33: | | " In addition to the need |for autoconfiguration on tools at low levels, renumbering requires |changes to high-level protocols. It also puts further reliance on the |DNS system to keep up-to-date address binding. To avoid circular |dependency, DNS servers themselves will require special treatment, |such as provider-independent addresses, assured connectivity, issues |that are yet to be explored. "
I fully understand the (blindingly obvious) concern about circular dependencies with DNS. I also understand the issues with overloading DNS (a naming system) and turning it into a Internet database system. Are there concerns *past* those points about leveraging DNS? Tony _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
