I-D ACTION:draft-iab-dns-assumptions-03.txt

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	Title		: What's in a Name: False Assumptions about DNS Names
	Author(s)	: J. Rosenberg
	Filename	: draft-iab-dns-assumptions-03.txt
	Pages		: 18
	Date		: 2005-7-20

The Domain Name System (DNS) provides an essential service on the
   Internet, mapping structured names to a variety of data, usually IP
   addresses.  These names appear in email addresses, URIs, and other
   application layer identifiers that are often rendered to human users.
   Because of this, there has been a strong demand to acquire names that
   have significance to people, through equivalence to registered
   trademarks, company names, types of services, and so on.  There is a
   danger in this trend; the humans and automata that consume and use
   such names will associate specific semantics with some names and
   thereby make assumptions about the services that are, or should be,
   provided by the hosts associated with the names.  Those assumptions
   can often be false, resulting in a variety of failure conditions.
   This document discusses this problem in more detail and makes
   recommendations on how it can be avoided.

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