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On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 03:08:06PM +0000, Chris L. Morrow wrote:
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> This is sort of the point of the NRIC document/book... 'we need to
> find/make/use a directory system for the internet' then much talk of how
> "dns was supposed to be that but for a number of reasons it's not,
> google/<insert favorite search engine> is instead"
Um, no. DNS became the defacto 'directory' prior to the rise of
decent search engines. The directory that was contracted and
'supposed to' exist as part of the NNSC-to-InterNIC dance was
to be built by old-ATT Labs. As far as I can recall, it was ever
only an ftp repository and not much of a 'directory and database
service' (corrections welcome). The problem was a classic case
of top-down thinking (we will dictate this glacially slow entity
will cook The Directory and The Database and decide what gets
published and when) crashing into a very dynamic market with a
clever and impatient population (we won't wait - DS and IS aren't
fast enough ... this RS thing is Good Enough).
An obvious catalyst was commercialization of domains. Which
interestingly enough leads us back to the lack of categories and
naming morass in which we live. I find it quite humourous that
new 'restrictive membership' branches of the tree are now being
proposed as a solution to the problem of identity (eg, .bank to
"solve" phishing). Unless there will be some level of enforcement
teeth, we will see the same situtaion that played out in 94/95:
tech: "no sir, you can't have .net as you're not a network provider"
customer: "the guy down the street will do it!"
tech's boss: (weighs non-extistent penalties versus $s, doesn't
care what 'good of the Internet' or 'sullied reputaion' means)
"competative disadvantage! must!"
Pushing an issue around to different points on the tree doesn't
eliminate it.
Cheers,
Joe
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