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Do Domain Names Matter? - Part II

• Comment posted Aug 13, 2003 1:01 pm PDT — by Colin Sutton
  Domain names don't have to be unique. For example, if a name mapped to two different IP addresses, the DNS servers could pass a "more details" string to be used by the client to a) ask the user to choose…

URLs: Ontologically Speaking

• Comment posted Mar 16, 2005 1:09 pm PST — by Colin Sutton
  > Why don't you fax me at enum://www.martingeddes.com/fax://? (Your syntax may vary.) Why bundle the core identities [...] Why bundle indeed. Wouldn't tel:612nnnnnnnn reduce the complexity? (where nnnnnnnn is my phone number in Sydney (2) Australia (+61))

Putting Multiple Root Nameserver Issue to Rest

• Comment posted Feb 24, 2006 1:16 pm PST — by Colin Sutton
  Paul, I agree with all of your last post except the second sentence: UNIDT started up a nameserver and populated it with copies of ICANN data and then added their own fake top-level domains to it. That’s how DNS piracy…

• Comment posted Jul 03, 2005 1:38 pm PDT — by Colin Sutton
  I though the USA was keen on personal freedom of choice. The user need not be affected at all by ICANN's use of the .biz doain, but still continue to resolve using their preferred (e.g. ORSC) mapping, only using ICANN…

A Balkanized Internet Future?

• Comment posted Jul 27, 2005 1:59 pm PDT — by Colin Sutton
  Dear Suresh, Just because you type English, it does not mean everyone has to. The Chinese don't need to. Similarly for the DNS roots. If you don't read Chinese, why do you care where their webs are? Regards, Colin P.S. …

Whither DNS?

• Comment posted Sep 28, 2005 2:05 pm PDT — by Colin Sutton
  My point is not that a list of attributes is required, but that hieroglyphs such as dot, com, http, au, etc. are not. Hence the googlewhack example "combatant linguaphiles". It would be nice, I agree, if "Colin" was my unique…

• Comment posted Sep 23, 2005 2:03 pm PDT — by Colin Sutton
  Domain names were a consequence of memory capacity limitations which no longer exist. Uniqueness is a problem only as long as there is no restriction on the search. Registration is one way of limiting the search. Imagine you could register…

A Survey of DNS Security: Most Vulnerable and Valuable Assets

• Comment posted Jun 17, 2006 2:47 am PDT — by Colin Sutton
  Almost a month has gone by, and no comments yet? I propose possible remedies for the insecurity: 1. Daily nag messages to the maintainers of the vulnerable name servers; 2. Blacklist the insecure name servers after a grace period from…

Royal Cat Loses ICANN UDRP Action

• Comment posted Jun 17, 2006 2:57 am PDT — by Colin Sutton
  Follow-up from the cat

Internationalizing the Internet

• Comment posted Dec 01, 2006 1:36 pm PST — by Colin Sutton
  Why couldn't a few TLDs be added for each language? The name servers could reject Unicode outside that language's subset. E.g. anyone reading the TLD '.日本' would expect the rest of the levels to be in the japanese subset of…

Addressing the Future Internet

• Comment posted Feb 10, 2007 9:33 pm PST — by Colin Sutton
  Regarding the decoupling of 'address' and identity - it's already happening; where 'address' is the location of a device and identity is made up of the services a user has subscribed to. A person's on-line identity is not a single…

DNSSEC: Once More, With Feeling!

• Comment posted Dec 12, 2007 12:13 pm PST — by Colin Sutton
  Do we still need intermediate DNS resolvers? What would be the network load of all clients going to a (signed) root server and cacheing the result locally? The client software is available now on Windows to cache resolved IP addresses;…