To:
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
cc:
George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>, Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, <dnsop@cafax.se>
From:
Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Date:
Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:25:24 -0500 (EST)
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Subject:
Re: Radical Surgery proposal: stop doing reverse for IPv6.
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Brad Knowles wrote: > > but if its optional, and untrustworthy, and currently incomplete and broken, > > and breaking other services, its worth questioning its value. > > DNS as a whole is optional. Why do we need to use names at all? > Why don't we all just memorize numbers and be done with it? Because there is a great deal of value, very little harm, and compared to the value there is very little work to keep it up. > Sorry, I don't buy this "if it's optional then we shouldn't do > it" argument. Its not merely because reverse is optional part of a DNS server implementation. It is the optionality, _and_ the harms that come with it, _and_ the very little value of the information, _and_ the very large amount of work to keep it up, which when taken together make it a questionable service. --Dean #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.