Re: [Enum] RE: [voipeer] I-D: Publishing SIP Peering Policy

["Henry Sinnreich" <henry at pulver.com>]

Folks,

Before deciding to spend company resources to register all possible carrier
services using ENUM and DNS 'as is', financial people may ask about a
technology risk assessment (think Google, Skype, etc.). In this context,
please look at the work aimed to replace the DNS by peer-to-peer NG Internet
name services (other startup tomorrow?):

The Cooperative Domain Service for example (CoDoNS):
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/papers/codons-sigcomm.pdf 
See the reasons why and also the engineering approach for an alternative to
DNS. CoDoNS is backward compatible with the DNS, without having its
drawbacks, such as vulnerability, slow response for real time apps and
inconsistent caches. It breaks the monopoly of name space operators. It is
running on Planet Lab.

This is just a sample, it appears a lot of bright people are doing similar
work.

Naive question: What if a DNS equivalent to Skype will make its commercial
debut? Incentive: There seems to be a lot of money in names.

Make it illegal or replay the non-Net-Neutrality + QoS politics? 
Or just dismiss it as R&D as has been done with the Internet all along?

Thanks, Henry


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