Google is amongst a group of DNS (Domain Name System) and content providers proposing an extension to the DNS protocol so that Internet requests are sent to servers in close proximity, thus boosting Internet performance. The proposal, submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force this week, was noted in the Google Code Blog. Some persons commenting on the proposal, however, feared it would infringe on privacy. DNS, Google said, translates Web names such as www.google.com to numeric IP addresses used to communicate on the Internet. DNS can be used to load-balance traffic and send users to a nearby server, such as ...