Re: [DNSOP] Global DNS architecture changes, "the camel", and so on

[George Michaelson <[e-mail]>]

I sort of agree. The addressing, a naming function and routing are the
three legs. If you do naming right, you can drop addressing and use
ephemeral addresses, and if you do routing right you can drop
addresses and do ad-hoc. But you need addresses and routing if you
want to do without names, so I kind of see this as a triumverate we're
grown into now (obviously there are other legs, like security, which
we always cut away in launch and then miss. three legged stools are
not stable...)

But that said, I see this other dimension. we don't run r* commands
any more. We don't run UUCP any more. Things which feel baked in turn
out to be ephemeral to the core function.

So name functions? Up where Brian Trammell is writing drafts? Sure. we
need that. What underlying protocol it maps to, Thats a big statement.
I don't buy that forever more amen it maps to UDP. If somebody makes
DOI work over ICMPv6, I could believe in 25 years we'd migrate to
bootstrap of DOI via ICMPv6 and be out of the DNS moment entirely.

As it stands, almost all bootstrapp-y application phases accept
address literals sorry [address:literals] somehow. Names are only a
convenience function, set against routing.