[23914] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wasted space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Fri Apr 30 00:08:01 1999
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: dredd@megacity.org (Derek J. Balling)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:12:22 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: tex@shrubbery.net, rbush@bainbridge.verio.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990429165408.00a6a410@pop1.yahoo.com> from "Derek J. Balling" at Apr 29, 99 04:55:08 pm
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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> Maybe... but only if you can assign all 8-bit characters in domain names.
> Last time I checked, it was a significantly small subset of that which were
> truly valid.
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> At 04:48 PM 4/29/99 -0700, Austin Schutz wrote:
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> >>your point?
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> > It would be possible to assign names to every atom in the universe and
> >still have some left over. Maybe not infinite but close enough :-)
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> > Tex
Once, -very long ago- there existed the domain ~^S^P.rice.edu.
Just to see if it could be done... :) 4.8.1 was a wonderful thing.
Of course the memnonic value of same can be a bit hard to retain...
--bill