Message-Id: <199402212125.QAA02252@wilma.cs.utk.edu>
From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
To: dupuy@smarts.com (Alexander Dupuy)
Subject: Re: Finding URN->URL servers
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Feb 1994 16:02:37 +0500."
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 16:25:30 -0500
> > I suggested a new domain precisely because the current DNS is too "fat"
> > at some points in the tree (think of how many second-level domains are
> > listed under ".com", for example). This is causing problems with zone
> > transfers.
>
> This is a very good point, which I overlooked. However, it's not clear to
> me that a new URN domain would be immune to the problem of "fat" domains.
Of course it's not immune. But presumably we know better this time, and can
take more care in assigning names within the URN domain space. Also,
extensions to DNS have been proposed to do incremental updating of zone
information. Using a different root domain for URNs would buy us some time
until the incremental updating is in place.
Keith