On 8 Mar 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
Somewhere along the process, DNS changed from an address space to to subject space. As an address space, having globally-unique identifiers is important; but as a subject space, searching is more complicated because identifiers aren't unique.
That was inevitable. After all, FQDNs are human-readable. "For every problem there is a simple and obvious solution. Usually that solution is also wrong". Hierarchial name spaces is a choice example of obvious and wrong solution to global naming.
DNS is not, nor ever was intended to be a general purpose search tool. That was X.400/X.500's job :-)
Too bad they !*@!d it...
If someone wanted to do something interesting, they would come up with a new RESOLVER library and interface which searched on something at a higher level than DNS names.
It is already done :) Yahoo, Google, Altavista, etc etc etc :) Just stop issuing alhpanumeric domain names and use numerals only. --vadim