User:Rouslan.kv/Interesting from Paul Mockapetris

There are several points that were mentioned by Paul Mockapetris in the interview. The issues arose in the press conference have shown the close correlation between technical and social sciences in scope of the global network. Even though development of new technologies is related to engineering field, the Internet has proved that social aspects of such phenomenon are also very important.

First of all, Paul Mockapetris speaks about principles of a new technology development. Indeed it has to be both extensible and understandable to provide its fast evolution and spread. The example of DNS perfectly describes these principles. In other hand, if at least one of these points is not fulfilled, the technology will hardly live for a long time. People who work with it will probably look for a better implementation.

Secondary, there was an interesting fact about the amount of top level domains. There was a suggestion to keep a constant value of them. Certainly such limitations would rather harm the technology like distributed DNS solution. Besides, it does not have any technical restrictions for the number of top level domains. As an example, among many others there are over 200 top level country domains. Such flexibility not only allows wide field for experiments but also can be used in various social applications like marketing (fancy domain names etc.)

Finally, the security aspect of the Internet had been discussed. Paul Mockapetris says that needs of the security tools like Tor follows from the fact that the global network's wide spread and availability may be used by some institutions to control people. But unfortunately such tools are often very complicated for an ordinal person to use. Since the protection of a private data is one of the most important aspects of the modern Internet, securing private information should be constantly improved during the development.

Nowadays social and engineering issues go along with the technical evolution. And of course to maintain a harmony of the technological progress people must not only think about flexible and easy to use solutions but also take care of related social problems.