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Re: NO ROOT?



On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, John Gilmore wrote:

| When the DNS was designed, very little was known about distributed
| databases.  Today I have been told by distributed database designers
| that it is within the state of the art to build a widely distributed
| database which will permit broad distribution of update operations,
| yet still converge on a single value of "truth" about a particular
| record.

  John, do you have any pointers to particular implementations that
possess these properties and are available under some sort of open-source
licensing arrangement?

  -bws



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