Re: Something better than DNS?

[Douglas Otis <dotis at mail-abuse.org>]

On Nov 27, 2006, at 7:48 AM, John C Klensin wrote:

> On the other hand, if one is going to have a network in which all  
> resources are publicly available and unambiguous without prior  
> negotiations between each client and server and in which one  
> doesn't want to allow the time and resources for a post-query  
> disambiguation process (which is exactly what we do to identify the  
> desired "Joe Smith" from that pool) then identifiers must be  
> unique.   Not overlapping name spaces, or fragments of a name space  
> that the client gets to pull together based on its own choice  
> algorithms, or a fraction of the aggregate name space chosen on the  
> basis of "least bad" or "most complete" service by a name-vendor,  
> but _unique_ and comprehensive.

PNRP attempts to ensure numeric identifiers are unique, where names  
freely associate without concerns of conflict.  The basic goal is to  
overcome limitations of DNS using more elaborate structures.  This  
extra information might provide a sequence of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses  
needed to navigate through various gateways and NATS.  The end-points  
of this navigation are introduced through "groups" where each member  
of the group retains other member's certificates as a means to  
verifying and differentiate possible naming overlaps.  This does not  
require unique names , but rather numbers based upon similar concepts  
developed by the T10 group for CAS.

This different (and some what scary strategy) allows for the ideal  
end-to-end networking paradigm.  Each and every network node is  
visible to the Internet for true end-to-end communication.  Firewalls  
designed to shore up flaws often found with complexity created by  
ever growing features are bypassed.  The demand for (anti-productive)  
gaming and effortless collaboration tools are designed to segment  
networks into "groups."  This demand may soon offer a (proprietary)  
alternative to DNS, where navigation still takes place at the browser  
using this "different" type of namespace.  As noted in the  
promotional literature, there are no copyrights on numbers.

-Doug

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