Re: New I-D:draft-kaplan-enum-source-uri-00.txt

Otmar Lendl wrote:
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> 
> Yes, the incremental change ist not that big. The question remains: 
> 
> Have we now reached the point where we should stop fiddling with the
> DNS protocol and should instead look for a directory lookup protocol
> which was designed from the beginning to support authenticated and
> complex queries returning structured data?

LDAP?

> 
> As this is not for e164.arpa, but private trees instead, do you actually
> need the sub-tree delegation feature of DNS/ENUM? Or is ENUM just used
> as a simple query protocol into a single database?

Not to discount the vast deployment of DNS, but i think delegation is
one of the key draws for many implementations. Even data controlled by a
single entity can benefit from the hierarchy and scaling opportunities
that build from it.


> 
> /ol

-pee