[157133] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: names are not numbers, was IPv4 address length technical design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Sun Oct 7 16:06:31 2012
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 16:05:09 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20121007011437.23783.qmail@joyce.lan>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Back in the 80s when DNS was a fairly new idea and things like Google
were way in the future I remember suggesting on the TCP-IP list that
people grab a phone number they owned as a domain name and add
first_last as a mailbox so we could leverage the international phone
directory system to find each other.
For example something like barry_shein@0016176403067.com (maybe insert
a letter, all-digits wasn't allowed back then.)
I guess that sort of idea was eventually incorporated into telephone
number mapping but not clear how successful that is or if the intent
is really the same. I think there were other analogues?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number_mapping
But the idea has come up.
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