Abstract

Naming and identification is critical to the Internet today, with the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) as the glue making the Internet useable by ordinary people by mapping human-readable names such as www. nsf. gov to Internet addresses such as 128.150. 4.107. Originally a simple lookup mechanism in a low-risk environment, today naming has additional roles in the network ranging from content delivery to anti-spam systems. DNS spans many applications because is flexible, universally deployed, and has robust infrastructure capable of supporting high traffic loads. But DNS today faces many challenges: needs for improved security and privacy, richer functionality; increasing dynamic content; orders-of-magnitude more names (at the top with DNS expansion and internationalization, and the edges with the Internet of Things). Most critically, DNS is increasingly difficult to evolve, both due to the installed …

Date

January 1, 1970

Authors

John S Heidemann

Journal

NSF Award Number 1513213. Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering

Volume

15

Issue

1513213

Pages

13213