Re: Devilish: Forget about DNS

Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:41:38PM +0500, Viktor S. Grishchenko wrote:
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>>There are much more other, technical or usability issues about DNS, but:
>>the key point is that DNS isn't suited to express Trust, Reputation and 
>>Authority. If global naming service will be replaced (not patched, but 
>>replaced), it is because of that.
> 
> Could you point out  why a DNS-TCP query would be any better or 
> more efficient than a HTTP fetch?
> 

DNS is often cached locally, you would need to provide a similar service.

> 
>>What ASRG can do? Just raise the problem and write requirements, relevant to 
>>the spam problem. And, of course, do that in parallel with LMAP.
> 
> 
> Ok, we'll raise the problem as we did many times and go to 
> hibernate until April 1st 2010.

It does not hurt to ask :) Drop a line to the main ASRG and IETF lists, 
and see if anyone bites.

Yakov
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Yakov Shafranovich / asrg <at> shaftek.org
SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc. / research <at> solidmatrix.com
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