Subject: Bagged cats and DNS elfs

From: [email-masked] (Dan Kolis)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:00:14 -0500

>Ed Gerck or Vint Cerf said:
>Since the cat can, and indeed may, go back to the
>bag in this case, it seems to be in our best interest
>to find ways to induce trust without recourse to
>control (or fear of) as the only solution.

Dan says:
Oh. Cats back into the bags? Easier to say then do. I noted a MIT paper and
my own current screwing around with a product that fakes DNS entries to live
with DHCP IP addresses looking nailed up.

Internet is going to get as lot weirder in a deep sense, I think. No matter
we "in principle" is in control.

If IP numbers are the holy grail, DHCP is the cat liberating technology.

Dan