Re: DNS under o=Internet

[Al Grimstad <[e-mail]>]

>On a smaller point which is of more immediate interest (at least to me):
>does anyone object to the placing of the DNS hierarchy under o=Internet?
>
>
>Wengyik

Wengyik, I don't really want to get involved in your internet debate,
but a thought occurred to me. Why not consider the entire internet
in the same way we're treating "administrative" domains in the NADF?
In some sense, this is the way we are incorporating autonomous
universes into the DIT, each sort of having its root at the
"administrative" domain node. I rather expect that for a typical
exemplar of such a domain, call it "Speedy Delivery", one of two
situations will obtain:

1. It will put absolutely everything under this one DIT node, i.e.

{C=US, AD=Speedy Delivery, C=US, O=US National Gizmos}, 
{C=US, AD=Speedy Delivery, C=FR, O=French National Gizmos}, ...

2 Or it will get one such DIT node per country and organize all
the information it holds with respect to that country under
the node, i.e. 

{C=US, AD=Speedy Delivery, O=US National Gizmos},
{C=FR, AD=Speedy Delivery, O=French National Gizmos},  ...

The first would seem simpler as a matter of registration and
general information management. The second might have certain
attractions from a listing perspective.

Of course, the ideal from a registration prespective might
well be something like:

{AD=Speedy Delivery, C=US, O=US National Gizmos}, 
{AD=Speedy Delivery, C=FR, O=French National Gizmos}, ...

It would take a bit of chuzpah to do this, but, given that the
NADF owns the addmdName attribute, it is probably in a position
to legislate how it is used. Those who don't like it can do
something else without any risk of naming collisions ...

Anyway, what if (a) the NADF had the chuzpah to claim that
it was going to use the addmdName attribute in this way, i.e.

{AD=Speedy Delivery, C=US, O=US National Gizmos}, 
{AD=Speedy Delivery, C=FR, O=French National Gizmos}, ...

and (b) it registered (offered to register) the internet as an
"admistrative" domain, so that the following was possible:

{AD=Internet, C=US, O=National Lab for Gizmo Research}, 
{AD=Internet, C=FR, O=Gizmo University}, ...

Anyway, it was just a thought which I disclaim any responsibility
for ...  -- al