On Aug 8, 2022, at 08:08, Christian Huitema <huit...@huitema.net> wrote:
> The name space is "almost" unitary. People deploy things like domain suffix > search lists so that users can type "mailserver" and arrive at > "mailserver.corp.example.com" -- or something else, depending where they > started for. There are also private, isolated namespaces; namespaces whose attached RDATA exists but looks different depending on who is asking (and when); names that are blocked in some places but not others; collisions between names; and no doubt other sources of incoherence. There one namespace in the DNS like there is one namespace in IP, which is to say there are multiple and many namespaces that are challenging to count or characterise with accuracy. What the DNS (domain name) and IP (address) namespaces have in common is that they look unitary so long as the common intersection of all the namespaces appears large to end users. We should perhaps remember that the ship has already sailed on there being a single DNS namespace and that what we are really concerned with preserving is that the illusion that it has not. Joe _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
