> Can't we come up with a simple, good technical solution to identify hosts?
We can, but every single solution is a set of trade-offs and even geeks will never agree on what's the right set of trade-offs. If the people who could give the tech widespread support don't agree, how is there ever any hope of rolling it out?
The only way I see to shatter the status quo is if big companies decide to push ahead with whatever they came up with and the rest of the world just has to follow. QUIC is a bit like that, I think.
Only problem is I don't there being big incentive for big companies to overthrow the system. It works well enough?
Of course, I would love to throw away DNS and start using a system where I can be John Smith and you can be John Smith and I can pass your fingerprint to my friend John Smith so that they won't accidentally connect to John Smith the rich prince from Nigeria.
We can, but every single solution is a set of trade-offs and even geeks will never agree on what's the right set of trade-offs. If the people who could give the tech widespread support don't agree, how is there ever any hope of rolling it out?
The only way I see to shatter the status quo is if big companies decide to push ahead with whatever they came up with and the rest of the world just has to follow. QUIC is a bit like that, I think.
Only problem is I don't there being big incentive for big companies to overthrow the system. It works well enough?
Of course, I would love to throw away DNS and start using a system where I can be John Smith and you can be John Smith and I can pass your fingerprint to my friend John Smith so that they won't accidentally connect to John Smith the rich prince from Nigeria.
I think one global namespace is a dumb idea.