• To: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@m...>
• Subject: Re: Google as Big Brother
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:56:02 -0800
• Cc: "Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <clbullar@i...>, xml-dev@l...
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Joshua Allen wrote:
>>Not specious at all. In the context of Web Services, the two dominant
>>models are decentralized indexes (Google and Yahoo) or centralized
>>repositories (UDDI registry-in-the-sky). If I've ever said anything
> 
> good
> 
> Was this a typo?  In what way is Google decentralized?  And would you
> say that DNS is "centralized", since UDDI is?

Yes, DNS is centralized. Thus the ICANN mess.

I don't know of a way to decentralize DNS because of Zooko's triangle. 
The proposals I've heard are quite heavyweight. Nevertheless, I think it 
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.

  Paul Prescod

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