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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable 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!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Amado Alves Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Mneson Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 11:18:12 +0100 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <001101c44baa$87b005c0$0201a8c0@win> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1086517101 15278 212.85.156.195 (6 Jun 2004 10:18:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 10:18:21 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <001101c44baa$87b005c0$0201a8c0@win> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Jun 2004 10:18:01.0923 (UTC) FILETIME=[8C592930:01C44BAF] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1160 Date: 2004-06-06T11:18:12+01:00 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.