re: [wg-c] IMPORTANT: DRAFT WG-C REPORT

[Karl Auerbach <karl@CaveBear.com>]

> >One must always remember that DNS is not simply a name-to-address lookup
> >facility, it is much, much more - indeed DNS is a fairly generalized
> 
> Sorry,  DNS is only and specifically a name/address mapping service.

Sorry, you ought to look at the types of records, from A to LOC to TXT.

> Other services are theoretically possible but none has every established 
> large-scale.

MX (mail exchanger) records aren't "large-scale"?

PTR records aren't "large-scale"?

CNAME records aren't "large-scale"?

The DNS never was and is not now simply for name to IP addresses.

		--karl--