Name: draft-iab-dns-assumptions-00
Title: What's in a Name: False Assumptions about DNS Names
State: Active
Authors: Jonathan Rosenberg
Group: Internet Architecture Board (iab)
Date: 2004-11-30
The Domain Name System (DNS) provides an essential service on the Internet,
mapping structured names to a variety of data, usually IP addresses. These
names appear in email addresses, URIs, and other application layer
identifiers that are often rendered to human users. Because of this, there
has been a strong demand to acquire names that have significance to people,
through equivalence to registered trademarks, company names, types of
services, and so on. A danger of this trend is that the humans and automata
which consume and use these identifiers will make assumptions about the
services that are or should be provided by the hosts associated with these
identifiers. This document discusses this problem in more detail and makes
recommendations on how it can be avoided.
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