6 Sep
2014
6 Sep
'14
10:11 p.m.
Barry Shein wrote:
The idea is very simple, each site would be responsible for their own domain and to respond to simple remote requests for name to ip address mappings or back again.
Wrong. DNS is not that simple. Domains and sites have, in general, independent topology that sites can not be responsible for domains. Perhaps, your misunderstanding is commonly shared by those who believe in NDN, though they might think there are negligible number of exceptions. Then, data, mostly, could be routed based on name hierarchy, which scales well. The reality, however, is that exceptions are everywhere and we need something like DNS to translate names into something scalably routable, that is, hierarchical addresses. Masataka Ohta