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Re: SRV records considered dubious

2006-11-22 11:14:02
Keith Moore wrote:
I don't expect there to be very many standards based protocols in the
future that are not Web Services.

I've seen lots of fads come and go, and so far I've seen nothing to
convince me that Web Services is not yet another fad.  Time will tell.

Angle brackets are now as inescapable as ASCII was twenty years ago.

Only for people who can't actually evaluate the consequences of protocol
design decisions at the presentation layer.

Admittedly, some things do get chosen by evolution. We have power-of-two word sizes now, and all hardware these days has to deal reasonably efficiently with eight-bit bytes. That's because these were found to work well over several decades of experience. But there are lots of reasons to avoid representing all data in a format that requires all of that data to be examined looking for delimiters, sometimes multiple times, by every machine that touches it.

The point is that if you use a DNS Domain Name as the index you want
to use the DNS as part of the distribution mechanism.

The point is that the distributed information store that we currently know as DNS is separable from the protocol that we call DNS, and we can (if we are careful) design a new protocol that will let us access that information store more flexibly while still keeping the views consistent between the DNS protocol and the new protocol.
Sure, but is the trust anchor that DNS more importantly provides? On today's
internet with all of the vested interests could the devil we don't know possibly
be any better than the one we do? I can imagine the only reasonable name for
a working group that attempts that is BLACKHELICOPTERS.

      Mike

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