[105703] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: NANOG Digest, Vol 5, Issue 92
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mack)
Sun Jun 29 16:25:19 2008
From: mack <mack@exchange.alphared.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:25:10 -0500
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:31:33 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
> Subject: Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up
> Pandora'sBox of
> To: davids@webmaster.com
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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[snip]
>
> I don't see what you're saying as supporting ICANN's actions. If DNS
> is
> irrelevant for these purposes, then why bother "making a bad solution a
> bit
> worse." Just let it become, over the next 25 years, some mid-level
> directory resource that users see less and less of, until it's almost
> as
> irrelevant as IP address.
One could make the argument this is already the case.
If I want to find a particular web site for a specific local company,
I usually search in google rather than try and find the web site by guessin=
g
the name. So in reality the web site name is already irrelevant for local
small businesses.
For large national and international companies, we can mostly depend on .co=
m
mapping correctly as they have spent large sums of money protecting their b=
rands.
Ie. mcdonalds.com maps to the fast food joint rather than some other family
owned business.
In 25 years a name will map to .com or be irrelevant with the current propo=
sal.
I would be happy to be proven wrong but time will tell.
>
> (*I* don't buy that, but then again, I'm making the argument that we've
> really screwed up with DNS)
>
> ... JG
> --
> Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI -
> http://www.sol.net
> "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and]
> then I
> won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail
> spam(CNN)
> With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many
> apples.
>
--
LR Mack McBride
Network Administrator
Alpha Red, Inc.
