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Title: RE: Statements against new.net? Cube B23, 871 Fox Lane, San Jose, California, USA, North-Western Quadrisphere, Earth, 3rd planet of Sol, Milky Way Galaxy, Universe. I just hierarchally described my work location. Assertion (2) given at least one counter-example, assumed to be false until either restated or counter-example disproven. Assertion (1) assumed true. How do multiple roots assist #1? When I can type 'new.net' and, depending on the root zone that I'm using, believe either ICANN's idea of new.net or my personal root's delegation of the new.net. zone? Your assertion about ICQ: ICQ provides a lookup function, and the only UIN that I used on my ICQ list was my own to get it installed. Are you suggesting that instead of DNS zones, we should instead use an LDAP directory (or something similar) to look up what we're searching for? I think the idea of 'chosen' domain names is a stupid concept, in any case -- though I do admit I -like- the mnemonic convenience of my email address at home. I think it's more likely that the DNS has probably scaled to the point that it needs to be examined to be replaced. -Mat Butler -----Original Message-----
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Mathew Butler wrote: > The problem is, of course, that it's NOT human-to-human communication. It's
If it is machines communicating there's no need to do any mnemonics. In
So... we have two design constraints: 1) people need to be able to locate and revisit somethings in the network 2) any meaningful hierarchial labeling of the real world is quite
Propping up DNS as-is only guarantees that the whole thing is going to be
So, instead of trying to fix the broken concept, and raising ridiculous
The exising deployed software is nearly sufficient (and in many cases
My proposal is to create a special hierarchy (similar to tpc.int) which
Anyone who thinks numeric IDs do not work when "better" alphanumeric IDs
And in case you didn't notice that most people in the world do not speak
--vadim
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