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Re: Alternative Roots Issue



I also support Steven's suggested wording, which is in line with
W3C's support for RFC 2826.

-Philipp Hoschka

Tapio Kaijanen a écrit :
> 
> Dear PSO PC colleagues
> 
> This is my first e-mail message to you all-and I want to make a positive
> start:
> As Azucena I support the wording of Steve.
> 
> Best regards
> Tapio
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <azucena.hernandez@POP3.TELEFONICA.ES>
> To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@RESEARCH.ATT.COM>
> Cc: "pso-pc, ITU (MLIST)" <pso-pc@ties.itu.ch>
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 10:24 AM
> Subject: Re: Alternative Roots Issue
> 
> > Dear Steve, dear PSO PC colleagues,
> >
> > I fully support the propose words provided by Steve..
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Azucena
> > At 14:49 21/09/01 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > >In message <905DD86907DAD3119DE70000778D770F04E41246@mailsrv1.itu.ch>,
> "Androuc
> > >hko, Vladimir" writes:
> > >>Hello,
> > >>Dear Protocol Council Members,
> > >
> > >I'm not sure I'm responding to the proper version of this note -- I
> > >received three very similar notes, and two recall notes.  (It would be
> > >nice, I might add, if the "recall" notes cited the Message-Id of the
> > >message being recalled.)
> > >
> > >Anyway -- we really need to rework the wording to make it clearer
> > >and less ambiguous -- or at least less subject to willful misreading.
> > >At the Montevideo meeting, John Klensin repeated the basic message
> > >of RFC 2826 by pointing out that the formal, mathematical definitions
> > >of things like "trees" and "roots" do not permit even a meaningful
> > >discussion of multiple roots in the DNS.
> > >
> > >Here is some possible alternative language, derived from Leslie's
> > >earlier suggestion.
> > >
> > > The Internet currently operates using a tree-structured
> > > name space known as the DNS.  Of necessity, such a name
> > > space must have a single, authoritative root.  Moving to
> > > a model that would not require such a single, authoritative
> > > root would require replacing the present, working DNS with
> > > some other system.  Such a replacement would require the
> > > development of a new naming paradigm, as well as the
> > > protocols and software to implement it.  Developing and
> > > deploying such replacement protocols would take years, and
> > > would have enormous potential for disruption of the Internet.
> > > The PSO does not see any technical benefit in such an
> > > effort.
> > >
> > >It says essentially the same thing as our earlier wording -- that
> > >one can conceive of different ways to do name resolution -- but
> > >points out the costs.  While there has been little explicit
> > >discussion of the earlier, ambiguous, text within the IETF, some
> > >who have seen it and the proposals based on it have reacted very
> > >strongly.  For the Protocol Council to fail to take action in this
> > >area would probably invite a unilateral response from the IETF.
> > >
> > >
> > > --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
> > >   http://www.wilyhacker.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
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