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Re: [ga] Original purpose of the DNS
oh! Bruce,
I was only refering to your text: bo nned for you to loop through a non
authoritative point of point of view.
BTW you might be interested in Mokapertis' RFC1034:
<quote>
The terms "domain" or "domain name" are used in many
contexts beyond the DNS described here. Very often, the term domain name
is used to refer to a name with structure indicated by dots, but no
relation to the DNS. This is particularly true in mail addressing
[Quarterman 86].
<unquote>
Interesting. Jefsey
On 14:32 01/07/01, Bruce James said:
I can only refer
you back to the study:
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-full/Arc07/msg03704.html
/Bruce
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: Jefsey Morfin
- To: ga@dnso.org
- Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 05:39
- Subject: Re: [ga] Original purpose of the DNS
- Bruce,
- you should not get confused between the need and the organization of
a response to the need.
- Names chosen by the users need to be supported and the DNS is a
solution. But that DNS solution does not create the names and carries not
intrinsic right over the User's choice, unless the Users agree to
restrict their rights upon proposition of the DNS designers. Hence the
need of Internet Users and DNS Designers
"constituencies".
- you should also note that the DNS has been adopted on the internet in
a totally different context. Please consider RFC920 and tell me how much
of it relates to the current practice of the DNs.
-
- Jefsey
- On 00:32 01/07/01, Bruce James
said:
- The original purpose of the DNS was to provide identifiers for
network
- objects that are more easily remembered and enduring than the
- numerical addresses and port numbers used by the network
infrastructure.
- However, domain names are now often used for purposes for which
- they were *not* originally intended, such as searching, corporate
- identification and marketing. And certain domain names,
especially
- those in the .com top-level domain, have acquired substantial
- economic value, leading to conflict and competition over their
ownership
- and a perceived scarcity of desirable names.
- /Bruce
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