karl and all,
You are of course very correct. But this is far beyond Roberto's
limited knowledge of DNS, and seemingly beyond the whole
ICANN (Initial?) Interim Boards as well, save Jun Mari. Roberto
has problems even taking the proper responsibility of unsubscribing
from a mailing list properly....
Karl Auerbach wrote:
> Before I respond more fully to Roberto, I wanted to mention that DNS is
> used for many things beyond simply looking up IP addresses.
>
> For example, in Internet telephony (H.323), one of the ways of expressing
> the callee is using what looks like an e-mail address. The part of the
> callee name after the "@" is used in a DNS query to obtain a TXT record
> which, in turn, references a "gatekeeper" for the callee's H.323 zone.
>
> That is just one of several ways in which DNS is being used for things
> well beyond mapping of names to IP addresses.
>
> We have to be aware of these uses of DNS and not wear blinders about DNS
> like WIPO did.
>
> I also want to mention that in these days of web caches and other forms of
> proxy devices, DNS queries are often captured and manipulated in order to
> re-aim a client to a more convenient server for a particular service. In
> those situations, which are becoming, increasingly common, DNS is being
> used as sort of a yellow pages service lookup rather than a white pages
> address lookup.
>
> --karl--
>
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