RE: Something better than DNS?

2006-12-04 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For example, what homograph rules apply to what domains? Are the > > rules per-TLD or some other granularity? What are the appropriate > > rules for GTLDs, since they don't have a native language other than > > the de-facto English? I

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-12-04 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John L wrote: ICANN has not to date dealt very effectively with these issues, but they are real issues that will have a great effect on people who use the DNS every day, and they're not technical issues, since all of the alternatives are equally feasible technically. At its base, IDN is a tech

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-12-03 Thread Frank Ellermann
John L wrote: > There are both technical issues and non-technical issues. [...] BTW, I liked your "travel-sitefinder" statement on behalf of ALAC. Frank ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-12-03 Thread Dave Crocker
-- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net John L wrote: At its base, IDN is a technical matter. That is the realm of the IETF, not ICANN. ICANN can deploy and administer solutions developed in the IETF, but it cannot create them. That's not its job and it's not its skill

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-12-03 Thread John L
ICANN has not to date dealt very effectively with these issues, but they are real issues that will have a great effect on people who use the DNS every day, and they're not technical issues, since all of the alternatives are equally feasible technically. At its base, IDN is a technical matter. T

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-12-03 Thread Dave Crocker
John Levine wrote: ICANN has not to date dealt very effectively with these issues, but they are real issues that will have a great effect on people who use the DNS every day, and they're not technical issues, since all of the alternatives are equally feasible technically. At its base, IDN is

RE: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-30 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Emin Gun Sirer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > My terminology is correct, and your message is a simple ad > hominem. No his argument was not an ad hominem. An ad hominem argument is an argument of the form 'Osama Bin Laden believes X, Osama Bin Laden is a bad person, therefore X is fals

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-30 Thread Emin Gun Sirer
My research group, as well as everyone who currently uses PlanetLab (and presumably the future GENI platform, if it comes to pass) faces a different deployment scenario than what the operational folks are used to. Setting up anycast might be possible, but is operationally very very difficult for lo

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Carl Malamud wrote: Hi - I actually think the question of how a namespace is to be administered is a perfectly valid one for the IETF to consider if it impacts the performance or functionality of a protocol. Yes, as long as it can be expressed technically. RFC 2826 and http://www.iab.org/do

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-29 Thread Douglas Otis
On Nov 29, 2006, at 8:53 AM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: I don't think that would be the only patent you would need Here is a somewhat more complete list: http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.2006/msg01076.html -Doug ___ Ie

RE: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-29 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Edward Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > At 11:42 -0500 11/29/06, Emin Gun Sirer wrote: > > >Let's not torque the discussion off topic. Free market > economics does > >not come to bear on the issue because there is no free > market to speak > >of for registries. > > What did I say ab

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-29 Thread Carl Malamud
Hi - I actually think the question of how a namespace is to be administered is a perfectly valid one for the IETF to consider if it impacts the performance or functionality of a protocol. We do that all the time when we give explicit instructions to the IANA in an "IANA Considerations" sectio

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-29 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 12:40:09PM -0500, Edward Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 56 lines which said: > The terminology used here indicates a need for a deeper understanding of > DNS. I suspect that he is deliberately trolling, in order to prove a point (that DNS is too limited t

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-29 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 11:42:17AM -0500, Emin Gun Sirer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 36 lines which said: > Right now, we'd like to have a domain delegated to a large number > (say 100+) of nameservers. See Edward Lewis' respond (basically, global anycast + local anycast and you hav

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-29 Thread Edward Lewis
At 11:42 -0500 11/29/06, Emin Gun Sirer wrote: Let's not torque the discussion off topic. Free market economics does not come to bear on the issue because there is no free market to speak of for registries. What did I say about frictionless surfaces? A quick question: Right now, we'd like to

RE: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-29 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
I don't think that would be the only patent you would need > -Original Message- > From: Douglas Otis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 9:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Patrick Vande Walle; ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: So

RE: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-29 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Emin Gun Sirer wrote: > > > > As an Internet user, I wonder about two things in the long term: > > - why is it so expensive to register a name? > > - what can we do to keep SiteFinderJr from happening? > > > what do you think of as

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-29 Thread Emin Gun Sirer
> what do you think of as "expensive"? Anything that has 1000% or higher markup. There is also another kind of expense: solving the SiteFinder problem took a lot of time, public outcry and moral outrage from a large group of people. It would have been nice to just scoot over to a competitor. These

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-29 Thread Olaf M. Kolkman
On 28Nov 2006, at 9:36 PM, Edward Lewis wrote: path MTU and have to be fragmented. (By-the-way, why is EDNS/RFC 2671 not advancing on the standards track?) For the same reason almost none of the other DNS RFCs have not advanced. Any volunteers for performing interoperability tests an

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-29 Thread Patrick Vande Walle
Brian E Carpenter wrote, On 29/11/2006 10:43: > your question is linked to whether we treat the namespace as a public > good to be administered for the greater public good, or as a > commodity to be treated like coffee beans. And that really isn't > a question for this technological community. Depe

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-29 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Emin Gun Sirer wrote: As an Internet user, I wonder about two things in the long term: - why is it so expensive to register a name? - what can we do to keep SiteFinderJr from happening? what do you think of as "expensive"? I can register a name for a year for the price of 2

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-29 Thread Michael . Dillon
> > You can solve the problems in various ways (see Emin Gun Sirer's > > message) but most of them create a "super-registry" on the top of R1 > > and R2 and you are back to the unique registry model. > > This is a false statement. A basic course on distributed systems will > cover lots of design a

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Emin Gun Sirer wrote: Stephane & Phillip, I'm thinking of writing a short report that summarizes the invaluable discussion here and beefing up the system sketch. I think we now agree that it is possible to have multiple operators manage names in a single, shared namespace without recourse to a c

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Mark Andrews
> > (By-the-way, why is EDNS/RFC 2671 not advancing on the standards > > track?) > > Good question. > > Rgds, > -drc It's on the dnsext charter though a little late. Jun 2005RFC2671 (EDNS0) to Draft Standard Most of the issues with RFC2671 are the result on

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread David Conrad
Karl, On Nov 28, 2006, at 12:05 PM, Karl Auerbach wrote: There is an ancillary issues that have not, to my knowledge, been adequately researched, and that is the expansion in the size of the response packets. I suppose that depends on your definition of "adequately". This will by itself m

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread David Conrad
Emin, On Nov 28, 2006, at 5:31 AM, Emin Gun Sirer wrote: we'd be happy if IANA just signed the single TLD delegations already. IANA, of course, doesn't sign TLD delegations. Even the question of who signs the root is a subject of debate since IANA doesn't actually operate the distribution

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Douglas Otis
On Nov 28, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Emin Gun Sirer wrote: Stephane & Phillip, I'm thinking of writing a short report that summarizes the invaluable discussion here and beefing up the system sketch. I think we now agree that it is possible to have multiple operators manage names in a single, sha

RE: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
tzmeyer > Cc: Patrick Vande Walle; ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: Something better than DNS? > > Stephane & Phillip, > > I'm thinking of writing a short report that summarizes the > invaluable discussion here and beefing up the system sketch. > I think we now agree that

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Emin Gun Sirer
Stephane & Phillip, I'm thinking of writing a short report that summarizes the invaluable discussion here and beefing up the system sketch. I think we now agree that it is possible to have multiple operators manage names in a single, shared namespace without recourse to a centralized super-registr

RE: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:57:08AM -0800, Hallam-Baker, > Phillip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 31 lines which said: > > > If GoDaddy and TuCows both attempt to register the same name at the > > same time they may well submit

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:57:08AM -0800, Hallam-Baker, Phillip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 31 lines which said: > If GoDaddy and TuCows both attempt to register the same name at the > same time they may well submit their orders through separate > machines. Ultimately there is a mech

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:31:04AM -0500, Emin Gun Sirer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 64 lines which said: > Ok, here is a rough protocol sketch. Very interesting. One more reason to ask it is transformed into a full Internet-Draft. Do you think it fits well in Hallam-Baker, Phillip'

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Edward Lewis
At 12:05 -0800 11/28/06, Karl Auerbach wrote: path MTU and have to be fragmented. (By-the-way, why is EDNS/RFC 2671 not advancing on the standards track?) For the same reason almost none of the other DNS RFCs have not advanced. RFC 3596 being the lone Draft Standard. RFC 1034/1035 being the

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Karl Auerbach
John Levine wrote: As someone noted a few days ago, ICANN and the current roots have yet to address the issues related to IDNs. There's only one significant technical issue, mapping non-unique Unicode strings into unique DNS names There is an ancillary issues that have not, to my knowledge, b

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread John Levine
> Beware academic speculation, it has a tendency to obsess on the > exact wrong thing. Indeed. (And I should know, having taken eight years to get my PhD.) >From a technical point of view, the registry/registrar model works fine. I have plenty of bad things to say about VRSN, but it is hard to

RE: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Emin Gun Sirer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Stephane, > > > It is not artificial, it is the way it has to work. You cannot have > > multiple registries for one TLD, period. No more than you can have > > perpetual motion. > > Be careful about making statements about impossibility >

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Emin Gun Sirer
Hi Ed, > The one weakness I see in the presentation of CoDoNS is one that is > common amongst academic exercises. While it treats a technical > problem in a formally defined say, it suffers from the "assume > frictional surfaces" syndrome. This disease is not fatal, it is more > like the flu,

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Edward Lewis
What this thread is lacking is: There is a difference between being a registry and being a DNS operator. The role of a registry is to associate a resource with a principle. Like a domain name with a company. Or range of addresses with a person. Or a value in a protocol field with a semantic.

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Emin Gun Sirer
> > But I'll do this only if asked. > > Consider it done. > Ok, here is a rough protocol sketch. For simplicity, I'll gloss over non-critical details, e.g. timeout handling. Bear with the notation, we'll end up with something neat at the end: - assume that R1 and R2 pick random numbers r1 and r

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:28:11PM +0100, Eliot Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 11 lines which said: > what do you mean by "mutually distrusting" in this context? In distributed systems, "mutually distrusting" means they are not under the same rule ("not in the same AS" would say a

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Eliot Lear
Emin Gun Sirer wrote: This is a false statement. A basic course on distributed systems will cover lots of design alternatives where R1 and R2 are symmetric, mutually distrusting and there exists no super-registry, yet there is a way to establish whether R1 or R2 acquired the name first. Ple

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:14:54AM -0500, Emin Gun Sirer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 14 lines which said: > Be careful about making statements about impossibility without an > associated impossibility proof. Already sent. Of course, proofs, like software, may have bugs :-) The IETF

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:45:56 +0100 Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's the problem with most "one namespace, several registries" > proposals. There is still a registry to coordinate the so-called > "several registries" so you're back to step 1. > "Most?" I'd have said "all

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Emin Gun Sirer
Stephane, > It is not artificial, it is the way it has to work. You cannot have > multiple registries for one TLD, period. No more than you can have > perpetual motion. Be careful about making statements about impossibility without an associated impossibility proof. History is full of people who

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 07:32:00AM -0500, Emin Gun Sirer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 48 lines which said: > A basic course on distributed systems will cover lots of design > alternatives where R1 and R2 are symmetric, mutually distrusting and > there exists no super-registry, Feel f

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Emin Gun Sirer
Hi Stephane, On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:41 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > let's assume two registries R1 and R2 > manage the namespace ".example". A customer C1 wants to create > foobar.example and asks to registry R1. A customer C2 wants to create > foobar.example and asks to registry R2. Ther

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 12:39:59PM -0500, Emin Gun Sirer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 99 lines which said: > the name hierarchy and the server hierarchy are intertwined. This > leads to a natural monopoly. Suppose you want a .COM name, but also > want to boycott VeriSign over SiteFind

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:58:11AM +0100, Patrick Vande Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 32 lines which said: > Add to that the current architecture does not allow competition at > the TLD level. There can only be one registry for any given TLD, > leading to artificial scarcity and

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave Crocker wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: "CoDoNS enables multiple namespace operators to manage the same part of the name hierarchy [...] Ideally, competing operators would preserve a single consistent namespace by issuing names out of a common, shared pool. In the presence of conflicting

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Douglas Otis
On Nov 27, 2006, at 7:48 AM, John C Klensin wrote: On the other hand, if one is going to have a network in which all resources are publicly available and unambiguous without prior negotiations between each client and server and in which one doesn't want to allow the time and resources for

RE: do it yourself roots, was Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
a group of private individuals to do the same thing. > -Original Message- > From: Joe Baptista [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 11:44 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: do it yourself roots, was Something better t

Re: do it yourself roots, was Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Harald Alvestrand
John Levine wrote: If they can suck down all the top level zone files then it is easy for them to publish an ALTERNATIVE DNS VIEW that contains their own additions. Anyone who uses their view will then see the so-called official DNS info as well as the overlay. When I see claims like this,

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Dave Crocker
Brian E Carpenter wrote: "CoDoNS enables multiple namespace operators to manage the same part of the name hierarchy [...] Ideally, competing operators would preserve a single consistent namespace by issuing names out of a common, shared pool. In the presence of conflicting or inconsistent recor

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Emin Gun Sirer
Hi, Let me expand on how DNSSEC coupled with a cooperative, p2p architecture for DNS can help enable competition among TLDs. The short summary is: - CoDoNS+DNSSEC enable any server to securely serve any name, which makes it possible, should the community decide to pursue it, t

Re: do it yourself roots, was Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Joe Baptista
Oops - I forgot about that one. Yes the Chinese Ministry of Information and Industry have many chinese top level domains registered. The are now the largest alternative root system on the planet next to icann and resolve for some 150 million users. And i anticipate they will soon surpass tha

Re: do it yourself roots, was Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Peter Dambier
John Levine wrote: If they can suck down all the top level zone files then it is easy for them to publish an ALTERNATIVE DNS VIEW that contains their own additions. Anyone who uses their view will then see the so-called official DNS info as well as the overlay. When I see claims like this, I r

Re: do it yourself roots, was Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread John Levine
>If they can suck down all the top level zone files then it is easy >for them to publish an ALTERNATIVE DNS VIEW that contains their own >additions. Anyone who uses their view will then see the so-called >official DNS info as well as the overlay. When I see claims like this, I really have to wonde

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 27 November, 2006 12:44 +0100 Patrick Vande Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Olaf M. Kolkman wrote, On 27/11/2006 11:27: > >> Hmmm, "Reliable answers" and "multiple registries for the >> same TLD" in the same sentence? >> >> Multiple registries imply multiple namespaces. That im

RE: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Patrick Vande Walle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > From > http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/beehive/codons-sigcomm04/ node15.html > > "CoDoNS enables multiple namespace operators to manage the > same part of the name hierarchy [...] Ideally, competing > operators would preserve a singl

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Patrick Vande Walle wrote: Olaf M. Kolkman wrote, On 27/11/2006 11:27: Hmmm, "Reliable answers" and "multiple registries for the same TLD" in the same sentence? Multiple registries imply multiple namespaces. That implies that there is no coherency, which I interpret as not being reliable.

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Patrick Vande Walle
Olaf M. Kolkman wrote, On 27/11/2006 11:27: > Hmmm, "Reliable answers" and "multiple registries for the same TLD" in > the same sentence? > > Multiple registries imply multiple namespaces. That implies that there > is no coherency, which I interpret as not being reliable. From http://www.cs.corn

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Michael . Dillon
> > DNS is broken since people started disallowing AXFR transfers. > Not sure I understand your point. You query a record, you get an answer. > Why on earth would you want to suck all the world's zone files ? Some people want to publish their own Domain Naming Service with additional information

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Olaf M. Kolkman
On 27Nov 2006, at 10:58 AM, Patrick Vande Walle wrote: return reliable answers to queries, it should also make it possible to have multiple registries for the same TLD Hmmm, "Reliable answers" and "multiple registries for the same TLD" in the same sentence? Multiple registries imply m

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Patrick Vande Walle
Peter Dambier wrote, On 23/11/2006 19:01: > DNS is broken since people started disallowing AXFR transfers. > > DNS is no longer about publishing information about hostnames and numbers > but about keeping this information a seecret. Not sure I understand your point. You query a record, you get an

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-23 Thread Peter Dambier
DNS is broken since people started disallowing AXFR transfers. DNS is no longer about publishing information about hostnames and numbers but about keeping this information a seecret. So not using DNS at all and distributing host files is much better than DNS and more reliable :) On the other ha

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-22 Thread Douglas Otis
On Nov 22, 2006, at 7:42 AM, Pekka Savola wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Keith Moore wrote: DNS is getting very long in the tooth, and is entirely too inflexible and too fragile. The very fact that we're having a discussion about whether it makes more sense to add a new RR type or use TXT

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-22 Thread Keith Moore
DNS is getting very long in the tooth, and is entirely too inflexible and too fragile. The very fact that we're having a discussion about whether it makes more sense to add a new RR type or use TXT records with DKIM is a clear indicator that something seriously is wrong with DNS. Adding a new

Something better than DNS?

2006-11-22 Thread Pekka Savola
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Keith Moore wrote: p.s. rather than adding more and more burdens to DNS, what we really need to be doing is figuring out how to replace it with something more robust and more flexible. (Yes, you'd have to arrange that DNS queries and queries to the new database would retur