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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Namespaces (was: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play)
Interesting analogy...How many here are old enough to remember when (in the US) the first two digits of the exchange meant something? 617-GArden8-xxxx was the houses in/around the garden section of town long ago & far away... But we've drifted well off operational topic. Scott Gifford wrote: > > Joshua Goodall <[email protected]> writes: > > [ ... ] > > > A better method for addressing data would be based on source-brokered, > > signed, distributed caches of keywords that can be search and, more > > importantly, bookmarked in the context of each signer. > > I'm not sure I want something that elaborate to ftp a file from my > laptop to my desktop. And I certainly don't want to have to remember > IP addresses for both of them. > > I think DNS works pretty well. You just have to think of it like an > 800 number --- 800 numbers are ambiguous (1-800-CONTACTS could provide > information about how to contact people, information about aliens > contacting the earth, or information about the old PBS show 3-2-1 > Contact!, but it in fact sells contact lenses), but they're still > easier to remember than the digits. > > ------ScottG.
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