[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Some reg'n data I think necessary (was Re: GNSO Next-Gen RDS PDP Working Group teleconference)

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 05:19:12PM +0100, Volker Greimann wrote:
> I do not follow how this is a bad analogy, since a domain name is itself
> only the translation of an (changing) IP address

No, it isn't.  A domain name is a node in a tree, and at that node may
be data that includes an IP address.  It is a widespread
misunderstanding that the DNS is "the phone book of the Internet", but
it does quite a bit more than identify addresses on the Internet.

Best regards,

A

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