• To: "Paul Prescod" <paul@p...>
• Subject: RE: Google as Big Brother
• From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:52:21 -0800
• Cc: "Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <clbullar@i...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: Google as Big Brother

> Yes, DNS is centralized. Thus the ICANN mess.

Hmm, I think there is a false binary here.  DNS is "more centralized
than some people would like".  DNS is also "less centralized than
Google".

> is pretty clear that having one central point of failure for the
> Internet is "enough". A second one would have to add value comparable
to
> the domain name system and UDDI demonstrably doesn't.

That wasn't the question, though -- the question was about why you would
characterize DNS as "centralized" and Google as "decentralized".  I
don't think that's a defensible characterization, and in fact is
backwards in spirit.

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