Gregory's Server"DNS is like many other protocols in that, in its mad dash toward universality, it produces sameness or consistency where originally there existed arbitrariness."
- Alex Galloway, Protocol (2004)
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@trevorflowers In the context of what he is saying (obviously missing here), you can consider that you might have two computers with completely different IP addresses, different subnets and all, but if they are owned by the same company and deployed to the same effect they may slot into the same namespace, foo.example.com and bar.example.com "Protocol is always a second-order process; it governs the architecture of the architecture of objects. [...] It is etiquette for autonomous agents. It is the *chivalry* of the object."  |
@darius I can see it with web origins but not quite with DNS. What an interesting claim!