Re: To address or NAT to address?

[RL 'Bob' Morgan]

On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Peter Deutsch wrote:

> Actually, it's still a relatively simple lookup mechanism (boolean
> domain names, anyone? :-) The interesting thing is how many different
> applications for this technology there are, with more coming along. Some
> of these new applications would benefit from changes to the technology
> (such as adding support for various types of searching, for example) but
> because of the mission critical nature of the initial existing services
> the community is loath to take experimenting too far. At some point you
> have to wonder if this is not having a chilling effect on innovation and
> whether the technology wouldn't benefit from moving some of this stuff
> out of the current service and legacy root.

The one-line summary I heard for the work of the proposed RESCAP working
group (http://www.ietf.org/ietf/99nov/rescap-agenda-99nov.txt) is "to do
stuff we'd like to do with DNS but can't quite make it do."

 - RL "Bob"