Re: Why replicate the DNS?

[Michael.Dillon () radianz com]

> I think Bill's point was that if a distributed database is required to 
> contain routing policy, why not use existing distributed database 
> infrastructure to host it (i.e. the DNS). In this context, deployment 
> of LDAP-accessible databases (which you advocate) is "replicating the 
> DNS" (which you mention you don't want to do).

No it's not. This LDAP-based solution is leaving the DNS alone rather than 
trying to stuff more and more functionality on it. DNS will not be 
replicated and will not be replaced. It will, however, be used as an 
integral part of locating appropriate LDAP servers to query.

Read this draft for an idea of how this might work. If you haven't time to 
read the whole thing then just look at section 7.

http://www.ehsco.com/misc/draft-ietf-crisp-lw-core-00.txt

And there is an IETF working group called CRISP that is discussing this 
stuff.

-- Michael Dillon