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. [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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Unfortunately, inefficiency scales really well. -- Kevin Lawton