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On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:50:51AM -0700, Vadim Antonov quacked: > > In fact, we do have an enormously useful and popular way of doing exactly > that - this is called "search engines" and "bookmarks". What is needed is > an infrastructure for allocation of unique semantic-free end point > identifiers (to a large extent, MAC addresses may play this role, or, say, > 128-bit random numbers), a way to translate EIDs to the topologically > allocated IP addresses (a kind of simplified numbers-only DNS?) and a > coordinated effort to change applications and expunge domain names from > protocols, databases, webpages and such, replacing URLs containing domain > names with URLs containing EIDs. Oh, you mean something like the Semantic Free Referencing project? http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/projects/sfr/ (Blatant plug for a friend's research, yes, but oh my god does it seem relevant today) -Dave -- work: [email protected] me: [email protected] MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/ I do not accept unsolicited commercial email. Do not spam me.
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