Getting DNS into X.500

S.Kille@cs.ucl.ac.uk Mon, 10 February 1992 20:39 UTC

To: osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Subject: Getting DNS into X.500
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1992 19:37:36 +0000
From: S.Kille@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Message-ID: <9202101539.aa18276@NRI.NRI.Reston.VA.US>

Valdis,

On your second point.   I think that we need to get moving on this.
It is scheduled fro San Diego.  I hoipe that we are going to 
discuss practical ways of mking this happen.

I think that doiing this is very important


Steve

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To: osi-ds@uk.ac.ucl.cs
Subject: Re: DNS under o=Internet
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Feb 92 17:16:02 GMT." <199202041616.AA24525@mitsou.inria.fr>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 92 13:53:20 -0500
From: valdis@edu.vt.cc.vttcf

> I support Wengyik on this. Registering the Internet Domain Name server under
> "O=Internet" is much cleaner than messing with the root. It carves a neat
> name space for Internet domains, and avoids conflicts with national
> authorities. 

Add my vote to parking the DNS stuff under O=Internet - with the
proviso that we get at least a gentleman's agreement with the people
who control the root DNS servers as to the registration issues.  As
Wngyik says: "My solution is to avoid the problem altogether by viewing
the DIT as a listing hierarchy :-)."  The problem is that *somebody*
has to take responsibility for *registration*, as otherwise we'll be
listing anything and everything, and after a while, it will be so
inconsistent and out of touch with reality that we'll be looking at
proposals to move the tree to a new arc called "O=Horse-manure" ;)

A second issue to consider is the set of second-level domains -
a DNS tree in the X.500 directory that has O=Internet@domain=EDU
will be quite useless if there are only 5 entries under it - do
we wish to populate the tree with *all* domains, even if they are
NOT participating in the current pilots?

				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Engineer
				Virginia Tech

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Getting DNS into X.500 S.Kille