On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:26:54PM -0500,
Keith Moore <moore(_at_)network-heretics(_dot_)com> wrote
a message of 27 lines which said:
If by "hostname" the authors mean DNS names,
I would personally make a difference between the concept of a domain
name and the protocol used to resolve them (today, mostly DNS).
The domain names will probably stay for a very long time, now that
people are used to it. The DNS may be replaced or partially replaced
in the future by new protocols (such as P2P ones).
So, I believe that the term of "DNS name" is confusing.
DNS is too slow and too often incorrect.
See the remark above. If we replace DNS with a "better" protocol,
would your objection still stand?
And while it's true that IP addresses don't have the right
semantics, neither do DNS names.
Please elaborate. I agree that the current resolution protocol is not
perfect but what is wrong with the semantics of domain names?
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