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Dear Karl <br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4AB7EE7C.8020300@cavebear.com" type="cite">On<br>
There are uncharted traps in the DNS world that will be exposed as we
start to stretch DNS into parts that are legal but have not been
exercised, parts such as using DNS classes other than IN.
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May be, however an example like yours that breaks the current DNS
system is irrelevant<br>
to the issue, it would break likely for other <i>classes</i>,<br>
frankly turning a fixed string into a variable, that is replicating
exactly the features<br>
of the IN class, should not improve or worsen the situation by much. <br>
<br>
What, and this I am ready to agree with you, might get into unchartered
territories is<br>
to use UTF8, in particular whenever cannonalization is concerned.<br>
Yet relying on tables instead of bit masking should not be a grand
undertaking.<br>
<br>
In fact, my proposal is rather dumb as far as programing is concerned,<br>
and because it is dumb, it might work. <br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4AB7EE7C.8020300@cavebear.com" type="cite"><br>
What I am suggesting is that rather than trying to patch DNS and
dealing with the mass of the installed base we should concentrate on
better technolgies that perhaps map to an underlying DNS base, perhaps
not, but that are themselves more attuned to the developing needs of
the net.
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So what is your proposal ?<br>
My proposal is a realistic approach taking into account the existing
DNS system as a constraint, <br>
it is not a clean slate approach, it is as much as KISS as possible.<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4AB7EE7C.8020300@cavebear.com" type="cite">Of
course, these new technologies might need new bodies of governance.
They would likely be new bodies, not ICANN, thus giving us a chance to
do governance things well from the outset rather than do a retrofit.
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Fully agreed.<br>
<br>
Francis <br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4AB7EE7C.8020300@cavebear.com" type="cite"><br>
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