Re: Devilish: Forget about DNS

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:02:35PM -0500, Olson, Margaret wrote:
> 
> A multi-purpose distributed directory service in a global scale is a hard
> problem.


Yup. You're absolutely correct. I fully agree with you. :-)

And that's exactly the problem we have. We try to abuse DNS as 
such a multi-purpose directory service, that's why the different
proposals try to hide boolean values in MX records, integer numbers
in A records and long XML data in TXT records which need to be
stitched together. That's exactly the problem. That's why we have
difficulties and that's why so many drafts erroneously focus on 
how to pack information into DNS instead on focus on the main problem 
to avoid spam and fraud.

That's why I proposed to move to HTTP. Because that's an 
appropriate and very pretty protocol for transferring arbitrary
data such as our records. 



Hadmut