Re: Mneson

[Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>]

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.