Re: Year 2000 problems in the DNS

[Robert Elz <kre@MUNNARI.OZ.AU>]

    Date:        Thu, 24 Apr 1997 11:24:29 -0500
    From:        jim@hosaka.SmallWorks.COM (Jim Thompson)
    Message-ID:  <199704241624.LAA19713@hosaka>
    
    DNS, in its current form, can't survive another 110 years of growth.

This is silly.  Of course it can, and probably must.  If there really
is a problem we should be addressing it right now - as delaying can only
make deployment of a replacement more and more difficult until that
reaches towards impossible.

For sure there will be evolutionary changes, and it is possible that the
need for a DNS will, for some reason, simply vanish, but don't just
assume this.  Certainly don't assume that there will be a replacement
DNS system designed and deployed, ever.

kre