Paul Vixie: What DNS is NOT

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Randall Webmail <rvh40 () insightbb com>
> Date: November 8, 2009 3:40:26 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Paul Vixie:  What DNS is NOT

> [[Paul preaches to the choir in this ACM piece about (some of) the  
> problems with DNS]]
>
> What DNS Is Not
> Paul Vixie, Internet Systems Consortium
> DNS is many things to many people—perhaps too many things to too man 
> y people.
>
> DNS (Domain Name System) is a hierarchical, distributed, autonomous,  
> reliable database. The first and only of its kind, it offers  
> realtime performance levels to a global audience with global  
> contributors. Every TCP/IP traffic flow including every World Wide  
> Web page view begins with at least one DNS transaction. DNS is, in a  
> word, glorious.
>
> To underline our understanding of what DNS is, we must differentiate  
> it from what it is not. The Internet economy rewards unlimited  
> creativity in the monetization of human action, and fairly often  
> this takes the form of some kind of intermediation. For DNS,  
> monetized intermediation means lying. The innovators who bring us  
> such monetized intermediation do not call what they sell "lies," but  
> in this case it walks like a duck and quacks like one, too.
> [SNIP]
>
> PAUL VIXIE is president of Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), a  
> nonprofit company that operates the DNS F root name server and that  
> publishes the BIND software used by 80% of the Internet for DNS  
> publication. He is also chairman of American Registry for Internet  
> Numbers (ARIN), a nonprofit company that allocates Internet number  
> resources in the North American and Caribbean regions. Previously,  
> Mr. Vixie was a founder and president of PAIX, the first neutral  
> commercial Internet exchange; SVP/CTO of AboveNet; and founder of  
> the first anti-spam company (MAPS LLC) in 1996.
> What DNS Is Not - ACM Queue (8 November 2009)
>  http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1647302
>  http://snipurl.com/t4twr



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