I just have a hard time envisioning this. How is Aunt margaret's E-mail going to get to you if DNS is out of the picture? Maybe your speaking more of a combined solution. However, E-mail is not the greatest example because it opens freeways of problems. Are you going to allow users to create E-mail addresses from their own namespace? how is that database going to be maintained?
The problem lies in the fact that everyone will have to be connecting to a central server at some point. All those severs must be interconnected. If I change my namespace how is Aunt Margaret going to find me? She'll have to connect to her translation servers to find out who I am known as now. At some point there has to be a larger repository which everyone has to connect to.
I don't know that the resources and excess traffic that would be created by this system was taken into account when writing this paper. If every joe that wanted to create namespace for himself is allowed to do so the burdern created on the already swamped networks will be insane. Consider that they could change their name at a whim. Consider the millions of home operators doing this and then think of the excess traffic this will create. Each user will notify a sub server, which will update another server and so on. Any hopes of making such changes realtime are out the window.
I could go on and on about how wrong I believe this idea to be. The last thing we need is to have to increase bandwith on a global scale to support a dynamically updated nameserver solution.
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I just have a hard time envisioning this. How is Aunt margaret's E-mail going to get to you if DNS is out of the picture? Maybe your speaking more of a combined solution. However, E-mail is not the greatest example because it opens freeways of problems. Are you going to allow users to create E-mail addresses from their own namespace? how is that database going to be maintained? The problem lies in the fact that everyone will have to be connecting to a central server at some point. All those severs must be interconnected. If I change my namespace how is Aunt Margaret going to find me? She'll have to connect to her translation servers to find out who I am known as now. At some point there has to be a larger repository which everyone has to connect to.
I don't know that the resources and excess traffic that would be created by this system was taken into account when writing this paper. If every joe that wanted to create namespace for himself is allowed to do so the burdern created on the already swamped networks will be insane. Consider that they could change their name at a whim. Consider the millions of home operators doing this and then think of the excess traffic this will create. Each user will notify a sub server, which will update another server and so on. Any hopes of making such changes realtime are out the window. I could go on and on about how wrong I believe this idea to be. The last thing we need is to have to increase bandwith on a global scale to support a dynamically updated nameserver solution.