Then I believe you are mistaken. I believe Microsoft participates in the IETF and ICANN but they have no more influence than any other participants in the DNS system. As far as DNS servers go I believe you'll find the majority run Bind which is open source. Kerry Brown ------------------------------------------------------------- From: Carl Smith [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: August-22-12 1:56 PM To: Kerry Brown; [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] The DNS problem I'm sorry Kerry. MS is a common name for MICROSOFT. Lou On 8/22/2012 4:03 PM, Kerry Brown wrote: I'm not sure who or what you mean by "MS"? Kerry Brown From: NCSG-Discuss [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carl Smith Sent: August-22-12 12:59 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] The DNS problem Thanks McTim, However, DNS is an IP look up system and re-director, where LISP is a programing language. MS has the major influence in the DNS system. We need a less single source dominated system. Our hope must come from the Open Source mavericks to provide the way. Lou On 8/21/2012 11:29 AM, McTim wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Carl Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote: The DNS problem and reason for confusion is due to limitations imposed during the infancy of development stages of machine inter-connectivity. Basically, IP is insufficient to grant each machine a unique identity. The limited IP addresses are licensed to master networks which in turn are sub-netted to machines which only have a local identity slaved to the master. Ultimately, we need a unique ID for each machine which is not slaved or controlled by a master. Is this a DNS issue or an ID/Locator problem? If so, LISP may be what you want to look at here, not the DNS. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel