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Re: Revisiting The DNS Notation Backwardsness Problem andMultiple Parallel Root Server Clusters

Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com> Thu, 08 August 2002 11:44 UTC

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Dave,

I don't think it's really worth cycles responding to those
who can't distinguish presentation, syntax, and semantics
from each other.

?redro drow rehtona desu evah I dluohs rO

  Brian

Dave Crocker wrote:
> 
> At 07:20 PM 8/7/2002 -0700, Mohsen BANAN wrote:
> >The conclusion of that thread was that indeed
> >we have a genuine architectural DNS Notation Backwardsness
> >Problem.
> 
> Given that the ordering for domain names is the same as for postal
> addresses, you will no doubt also be seeking to have us write postal
> addresses differently.  After all, the problem for the paper world must be
> even worse than the computer world, given that people typically write out
> those postal strings.
> 
> d/
> 
> ps.  You have not yet provided the substantiation to your earlier claims
> that I asked about.  Going through the exercise of actually providing the
> basis for a conclusion is a hassle, but it does improve the credibility of
> the conclusion, don't you think?
> 
> ----------
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