[wg-c] Re:

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 04:10 PM 8/30/99 , Mikki Barry wrote:
understand the issues of non hierarchial systems, I found this writing by 
Karl Auerbach.  I found it quite interesting.
>  http://www.cavebear.com/cavebear/growl/issue_2.htm#multiple_roots

The paper is a very good demonstration of the reason that it is far better 
to debate a detailed proposal than it is to debate general ideas.

The paper entirely misses the fact that the root of the DNS defines a name 
space and that an independent root will define an independent name space.

It is correct that there is no technical reason that the net cannot have 
multiple name spaces,

However supporting multiple spaces ensures divergence (non-overlap) and 
collisions (ambiguity due to multiple occurrences.).  In other words, the 
name spaces will be partitioned and users of one space will not be able to 
resolve users of the other.

d/

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