# Re: Follow up on charter proposal

Keith Moore (moore@cs.utk.edu)
Sat, 08 Jul 1995 15:00:37 -0400

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    Message-Id: <199507081900.PAA22070@wilma.cs.utk.edu>

    From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>

    To: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>

    Subject: Re: Follow up on charter proposal

    In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jul 1995 21:22:39 BST."

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    Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1995 15:00:37 -0400

> For background info, see <URL:http://inet.nttam.com/HMP/PAPER/173/>
>
> This paper proposes a new DNS record "DX" (Directory eXchange), which
> can be simulated for the moment with "TXT" (TeXT) records:
>
> rs.itd.umich.edu ->
> TXT "dx: 0 ldap://terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu:6666/"
> TXT "dx: 10 ldap://vertigo.rs.itd.umich.edu:6666/umich.edu"

The "URNs considered harmful" draft has a similar proposal, only
it uses the domain from a URL as the "naming authority" for the
DNS lookup.

> PS Just for fun - what would the degenerate case be (no DX records) ?
> Talk HTTP to an IP address associated with the domain name ?? A la
> MX - but which port number ?!

If URLs are used for resource names, the degenerate case becomes:
access the URL via normal means.

Keith

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