[governance] What comes after DNS and IPv6

[Daniel Kalchev]

On Sep 21, 2011, at 22:57 , Ian Peter wrote:

> I've thought for some time that the Internet 15 years out from here is
> likely to have neither DNS not IPv6 . Nice to see luminaries such as Bill St
> Arnaud also questioning the dominant beliefs in this area
> 

I remember hearing similar prophecies more than 15 years ago, as well.

There is nothing particularly "Internet" about the DNS. It was hyped a lot, in order for certain groups of people to make great profits and make themselves important in the "Internet" realm. Mechanisms equivalent or alternative to DNS, providing the same functionality to the upper level protocols have existed for many, many years.

One value DNS has is the chain of trust, that is formed from the root to the system administrator that decides and implements the last label. Other than that value, DNS names are just mnemonic labels. Anyone who believes they are anything more (including, that one can regulate mnemonic labels) deserves what they get.

IPv6 is an entirely different story. The world just has not discovered the wonders of IPv6, no matter how many demonstrations have been made so far. It's implementation is just a matter of demand -- the technology and infrastructure is already here --- just create the demand and it will show up everywhere (just like what happened with DNSSEC).

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