In message <825C8AC7-C01E-4934-92FD-E7B9E8091A3A@arbor.net>, Roland Dobbins wri tes:
On Aug 5, 2009, at 9:32 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
We might have an alternative one day, but it's going to happen by accident, through generalization of an internal naming service employed by a widely-used application.
Or even more likely, IMHO, that more and more applications will have their own naming services which will gradually reduce the perceived need for a general-purpose system - i.e., the centrality of DNS won't be subsumed into any single system (remember X.500?), but, rather, by a multiplicity of systems.
Been there, done that, doesn't work well. For all it's short comings the DNS and the single namespace it brings is much better than having a multitude of namespaces. Yes I've had to work with a multitude of namespaces and had to map between them. Ugly.
[Note that I'm not advocating this particular approach; I just think it's the most likely scenario.]
Compression/conflation of the transport stack will likely be both a driver and an effect of this trend, over time.
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