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

[Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com>]

On May 4, 2006, at 13:58, Henry Sinnreich wrote:

> 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.

Actually that is a very strong disincentive for replacing the DNS.  
Why should everyone who has already made an investment into the  
current global, ubiquitous naming system abandon that for an unknown  
and unproven "something else"?

> 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?

If there are new ideas on how to do naming or make the DNS better,  
then they should of course be considered.
Most of the DNS people I've spoken to don't believe that distributed  
hash tables -- the idea behind the Cornell paper you quoted -- are a  
positive advance.

Every few years someone comes up with a technology that  claimes to  
supersede or displace the DNS: Yellow Pages/NIS, NDS, X.500, LDAP,  
etc, etc. Every time, these "better solutions" lose.  And meanwhile  
the DNS just quietly gets on with the job of answering billions of  
queries every hour so that the internet keeps workling.

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