From: Yuhan Cai (yuhancai@cs.washington.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 17 2004 - 07:19:33 PST
Title: Development of the Domain Name System
Authors: Paul V. Mockapetris and Kevin J. Dunlap
Reviewed by: Yuhan Cai
Main results of the paper:
， It presents the design philosophy of the Domain Name System (DNS).
， It provides a comprehensive overview of DNS.
Strengths of the paper:
， It discusses DNS from a variety of perspectives: design principles, evolution, current status, usages, conspicuous surprises, successes and shortcomings.
Key limitations:
， There are few experimental results that support the authors¨ claims.
Relevance of the paper:
， The discussion on DNS in this paper is rather complete in that it addresses the issues of DNS from different aspects.
Future work:
， Future research work is expected on the use of the data description techniques from the ISO standards, which might provide a better mechanism for adding more data types.
， It might be useful to develop another approach to structure the total task into coherent layers.
， Technical and political solutions to the growing complexity of naming are another issue.
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