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Michael Dillon writes: >On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > >> How does providing different top level domains for different categories >> of organizations "violate the laws of physics", Michael? > >It tries to confine objects to a single state whereas physics teaches that >the universe cannot be so neatly sliced and diced. > >Of course, I could have simply asked the question that needs to be asked, >namely: why would anyone want a name to include a category anyway? > >Your name, Jay Ashworth, gives no clue as to your education, your >training, your profession, your age, your race, your height. Why should an >Internet domain name be any different? The DNS needs to be hierarchical so >that a query can trace a path from the root of the DNS to find the IP >address belonging to a name. But why should the branches in the hierarchy >mean anything in particular in any given human language? Some people would >like to restrict .com to COMMON usage, .org to ORGASMIC providers and .net >to CLEAN content (net is French for clean), but I personally don't give a >damn and prefer a more diverse and chaotic system of naming. Ahh but you're wrong.. Ashworth is his family identifier. It gives him a possible relationship with other "Ashworth"s in existance. Chaotic and diverse naming is fine as long as you have a rather nice way of indexing it all. But.. we don't. (And don't joke about search engines..) FOr example. Wouldn't it make more logical sense if there existed a domain 'movie.com' with which movies were registered under? Saves stuff like http://www.titanic-themovie.com/ or whatever it is since Titanic is taken. And it means that there can be a rather logical choice to start a search of your favourite movie's official web presence. What about looking for a car? GOing online shopping? Finding pr0n? (oh wait, thats one thing search engines are good for..) With the sheer amount of information on the internet today there really needs to be a decent distributed indexing system for all of it. DNS could have been it if it were maintained a little more thoughtfully from the beginning. My 2c.. (I think its 0.7c in the US..) Adrian
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