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Paul Mockapetris On The Future of DNS

Posted by timothy on from the smooshing-in-extra-stuff dept.

penciling_in writes "In a CircleID article called Letting DNS Loose, Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of DNS and Chief Scientist and Chairman of Nominum, gives a good indication of what is to be expected in the upcoming years when it comes to data riding on DNS: "RFID tags, UPC codes, International characters in email addresses and host names, and a variety of other identifiers could all go into DNS, and folks have occasionally proposed doing just that. It's really just a question of figuring out how to use the DNS -- it's ready to carry arbitrary identifiers." According to Paul, there are 40 or so data types to be added to DNS: "In fact the whole ENUM scheme is built out of classical DNS technology, and NAPTR is really just the latest data type to be added to the DNS. NAPTR is also just an extension of SRV, which was an extension of MX, which are DNS data types that Active Directory uses to start itself and the Internet uses to route each piece of mail." Paul also clarifies the recent BBC story previously discussed here on Slashdot."

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  1. Re:You saw it coming. by The+Human+Cow · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'd love to know how the first post for this story got modded "Redundant".

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  2. Re:You saw it coming. by abradsn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I an overlord comment in another post recently. Maybe someone is tired of it?

  3. Re:Hmmm by hdparm · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I can't fucking believe that someone else has named his box as I did mine! The goal was to find unique name and I was sure gobbler is the most stupid available.

    I FAILED IT!

  4. Re:You saw it coming. by soulsteal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All your mod points are belong to us.