In message <9508012156.AA16197@gw.home.vix.com>, Paul A Vixie writes:
if we do a mapping/hashing thing, we'll do it in the root servers in a way that the clients will not even have to see. solving the ".COM is full" problem from the point of view of the root servers won't require any kind of protocol or user visible change.
Paul, The point is that people will continue to use their SunOS 3.5, Xenix286, and BellTechnologies Unix, IDRIS, or whatever archane old Unix flavor they have and if it has a resolver at all it won't know the first thing about hashing anything. Those folks that can't recompile their applications can type cisco.ci.com, and do their part to add a level of hierarchy, but they aren't going to be happy computing a hash function and typing that in as a DNS name. Curtis