[116494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dan Kaminsky
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Aug 5 18:37:48 2009
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
To: Ben Scott <mailvortex@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <59f980d60908051526n7ab973ebi5285439e4a35285a@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 18:37:27 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 5, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com> =20
> wrote:
>> At some time in the future and when a new paradigm for the user =20
>> interface is
>> conceived, we may not longer have the end user =93typing=94 a URL, =
the =20
>> DNS or
>> something similar will still be in the background providing name to =20=
>> address
>> mapping but there will be no more monetary value associated with it =20=
>> or that
>> value will be transferred to something else.
>
> We're already there. It's called "Google".
>
> In the the vast majority of cases I have seen, people don't type
> domain names, they search the web. When they do type a domain name,
> they usually type it into the Google search box.
Partially true for web access, very rarely true for email. I type in =20
email domains much more often than I do web domains. And now email =20
addresses are becoming URIs for log ins, SIP calling, video =20
conferencing, etc.
It's also interesting how in some ways twitter and its relatives have =20=
been sending
URLs backwards. If you type in
http://www.americafree.tv
you may have some idea what you are getting, but if you type in
http://bit.ly/w5aM4
you have none. (These two URLs go, or at least they should go, to the =20=
same place.
Who knows if that will be true in a year, or 5, or 10.)
Here is a place IMO where a better UI and URI philosophy would really =20=
help.
Regards
Marshall
>
>
> (Alternatively, they type everything into the browser's "address
> bar", which is really a
> "search-the-web bar" in most browsers.)
>
> (Replace "Google" with search engine of your choice.)
>
> -- Ben
>
>
