[Chapter-delegates] Proposal for Next Generation Domain Name Services

[John Schnizlein]

Since you asked, I think you captured it perfectly with "as if there  
wasn't already enough to deal with."

This contribution is a mishmash of questionable ideas including (1)  
alternative roots, (2) using different CLASS values , and (3) more  
different namespaces.  Alternative roots, as the article says, were  
failures - and good riddance. Since the other networks that used  
different CLASS values went away, there have been occasional  
dalliances with using them - none ever delivered.  Now that ICANN is  
actively pursuing liberal increases in top-level domains and  
internationalized domain names, the need for a work-around seems to  
have dissipated.

My advice is to ignore this following whatever entertainment value you  
get from thinking about how difficult it would be to make it work.

John

On 2009May22, at 3:48 AM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
>
> In other news, something a little more "lugubrious", namely a  
> proposal to make use of the "class" of address to distribute Domain  
> Name Services:
>
> http://www.net4d.org/DOCS/WSISForum09-InfraClasses-V0.1.pdf
>
> In my opinion, this opens the door to malware, spammers, domain  
> thieves, etc. since it introduces complexity of classes in addition  
> to domains, top level domains and other whatnot.
> Of course, the counter-argument is one of a full "semantic web".  
> Trouble is, the more layers you add to the addressing and access  
> model, the easier will be to hack and manipulate that model. Another  
> can of worms indeed... as if there wasn't already enough to deal with.
>
> I'd be interested in hearing what our in-house experts think of this.
>
> Olivier
>
> -- 
> Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
> http://www.gih.com/ocl.html