%0 Conference Paper %1 1251192 %A Walfish, Michael %A Balakrishnan, Hari %A Shenker, Scott %B NSDI'04: Proceedings of the 1st conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation %C Berkeley, CA, USA %D 2004 %I USENIX Association %K naming references %P 17--17 %T Untangling the web from DNS %X The Web relies on the Domain Name System (DNS) to resolve the hostname portion of URLs into IP addresses. This marriage-of-convenience enabled the Web's meteoric rise, but the resulting entanglement is now hindering both infrastructures--the Web is overly constrained by the limitations of DNS, and DNS is unduly burdened by the demands of the Web. There has been much commentary on this sad state-of-affairs, but dissolving the ill-fated union between DNS and the Web requires a new way to resolve Web references. To this end, this paper describes the design and implementation of Semantic Free Referencing (SFR), a reference resolution infrastructure based on distributed hash tables (DHTs).

@inproceedings{1251192, abstract = {The Web relies on the Domain Name System (DNS) to resolve the hostname portion of URLs into IP addresses. This marriage-of-convenience enabled the Web's meteoric rise, but the resulting entanglement is now hindering both infrastructures--the Web is overly constrained by the limitations of DNS, and DNS is unduly burdened by the demands of the Web. There has been much commentary on this sad state-of-affairs, but dissolving the ill-fated union between DNS and the Web requires a new way to resolve Web references. To this end, this paper describes the design and implementation of Semantic Free Referencing (SFR), a reference resolution infrastructure based on distributed hash tables (DHTs).}, added-at = {2008-03-20T00:16:47.000+0100}, address = {Berkeley, CA, USA}, author = {Walfish, Michael and Balakrishnan, Hari and Shenker, Scott}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/289979dcf114713a977197bd829458a76/chesteve}, booktitle = {NSDI'04: Proceedings of the 1st conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation}, interhash = {8f3c551a88675a4dab39642b5a79a16c}, intrahash = {89979dcf114713a977197bd829458a76}, keywords = {naming references}, location = {San Francisco, California}, pages = {17--17}, publisher = {USENIX Association}, timestamp = {2008-03-20T00:41:15.000+0100}, title = {Untangling the web from DNS}, year = 2004 }