[ih] History of Naming on The Internet - is it still relevant?

[Dave Crocker]

On 7/21/2025 11:15 AM, Karl Auerbach via Internet-history wrote:
> Why do I (and also ISO/OSI) believe that an association protocol 
> (between application layer and transport layer) ought to be there?  
> And why couldn't DNS take up the slack? 


Looking at the TLS spec, a long time ago, I discovered that it is 
extensible, in a way that seems designed to fill exactly that slot.

I had been interested in decoupling applications from direct linkage to 
TCP, so that it could maintain multiple, independent transport paths 
between end points, and thereby potentially be robust against an outage.

d/

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