Re: WorldNIC

["James R. Cutler" <James.Cutler () iscg eds com>]

DNS Names are identifiers for resource records in Domain Name Service. They are addresses only in that they specify a 
location in a namespace. The hierarchical nature of DNS Names provides a means to delegate the authority and mangement 
of these identifiers. 

        JimC 



At 3:55 PM -0400 6/9/98, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
<snip>
> ...  DNS names are actually _addresses_, and can't be
> expected to map one to one with names in the large; this is an attempt
> to soften the impact of that problem.
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