[e2e] scheduled name space

Jon Crowcroft Jon.Crowcroft at cl.cam.ac.uk
Fri Apr 16 05:50:52 PDT 2004


so here is an idea for you to kick around, smoke, generally abuse
and send off to war without any socks

name servers typically get massively gamed coz people acn do cool
things with them like rotaries and so on - what if we add one more
tweak to sometihing like the DNS, which i will call
schedulable names

this are names whose attributes dont just have a time to live- they
have a simple rule on how to respond to users requests for them, 
and one of the attrbi/value in the responses is the rule
perhaps another thing in the response could be where else might
answer the request later...

this allows one to schedule name replacement, but distribute the
load over clients/resolvers, and over lower level servers - i.e.
delegate not responsibility for mapping, but for cacheing, but also
for manageing the timeout behaviour...

combined with recursive or iterative lookup, this allows one to do
much cleverer things with who gets to re-look up a name/address
binding when.

as if we dont have enough problems already with DNS:-)

j.


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