As I recall, didn't we (members of the IETF list) almost have a holy (flame)
war, about wheather DNS was a directory service about 6 months ago......
Once more into the breech dear friends........ (with apologies to Shakespeare)
Jim
Randy Bush <randy(_at_)psg(_dot_)com> on 12/08/2000 08:49:24 PM
Sent by: Randy Bush <randy(_at_)psg(_dot_)com>
To: Bill Manning <bmanning(_at_)zed(_dot_)isi(_dot_)edu>
cc: fred(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com, anthony(_at_)ATKIELSKI(_dot_)COM,
ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org (Jim
Stephenson-Dunn/C/HQ/3Com)
Subject: Re: Internationalization and the IETF
Buzzt. 1000 times on the chauk board:
The DNS is not a directory service...
but it's an address registry?