Re: [RAI] [drinks] FW: Global Service Provider ID - draft-pfautz-service-provider-identifier-urn-01

[Dean Willis <[e-mail]>]

On 10/4/11 1:34 PM, Richard Shockey wrote:

>
> DNS? I don't get that at all ..except as a ENUM record in a private closed
> RFC 6116 instantiation.  :-)

DNS provides certain things that we might arguably want from a SPID, and 
the use cases are actually pretty consistent with the DNS usage guidelines.


Those things are:

1) A registry of information that is long-lived but does occasionally 
change, where that information is "universally scoped", i.e. applicable 
Internet-wide.

2) A mechanism to query that registry.

3) Dynamic propagation of changes to that registry.

4) A mechanism by which multiple registrars can populate the registry.

5) Reclamation of unused names within the registry.

6) Whois-like tracking of entities on behalf of whom registrations are made.

7) Possibly, hierarchical suballocation within the namespace (we've had 
proposals either way on this one).

Thought-provoking question:

How is this whole thing different from Bango Numbers?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/07/20/numeric_domain_name_system_launched/

http://bango.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/115/~/bango-numbers

And, since, I consort with evil daily:

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2003/0065818.html