From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac57276375ea149f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!tiscali!transit1.news.tiscali.nl!dreader2.news.tiscali.nl!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Mneson References: <001101c44baa$87b005c0$0201a8c0@win> From: Ludovic Brenta Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 12:41:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87ekotaryx.fsf@insalien.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/Dfwj/52uQH+Tx6V4dHu9+9J76Q= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Tiscali bv NNTP-Posting-Date: 06 Jun 2004 12:41:27 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.134.238.84 X-Trace: 1086518487 dreader2.news.tiscali.nl 41748 83.134.238.84:37406 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tiscali.nl Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1163 Date: 2004-06-06T12:41:27+02:00 List-Id: Marius Amado Alves writes: > Andrew Carroll wrote: > >> You know, come to think of it, there is a project just starting that >> Mneson might be perfect for. The AdaBIND project. >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/adabind/ >> Maybe an opportunity to "join forces" and create a product has just >> presented itself? > > Maybe. I used to lurk some of the AdaBIND posts on this list, and I > have just checked the website. I strongly feel the lack of a high > level description of AdaBIND, including a rationale for rewriting > BIND. BIND seems a complicated domain on itself and with many > complicated implications. I myself know only 0.000001% of this > domain. And nobody is going to read 100 RFCs just to get an idea of > what BIND is. I suspect that even if they read the 100 RFCs they would > still have no idea. So what I will say next is based on my 0.000001% > knowledge of BIND and related issues. I suspect BIND is essentially > what is commonly known as DNS. And DNS is essentially a database of > domain names and IP addresses, and a lot of rules. So the role of > Mneson would be to serve as the database component for this. If this > is not terribly off the mark, I may be interested and join the AdaBIND > list as a Mneson consultant, and maybe as coeditor of the much wanted > high level descriptions. I think you are quite close to the mark, and the high-level description you speak of is indeed badly wanted. Andrew and I have started a document listing all the relevant RFCs[1]. I have already started reading some of the high-level ones but I have not found the time to write an executive summary yet. [1] http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/adabind/doc/devel/requirements/functionality-by-rfc.html BTW, I also know next to nothing of the domain, but I'm willing to learn :) -- Ludovic Brenta.