[96948] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why same names, was Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Lewis)
Tue May 29 17:59:01 2007
In-Reply-To: <AB2A927C-3BCB-442E-B292-453B35CC4B59@virtualized.org>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:11:33 -0400
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
From: Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>
Cc: Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>, Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 12:01 -0700 5/29/07, David Conrad wrote:
>What a horrible idea. Applications automatically pre- or appending crap to
>domain name labels shouldn't be done, period.
I won't argue that, but it happens.
And I do make use of it. When I am back from a trip I type in
"dilbert" and see the comic appear. The next time I type in "d" and
my browswer fills in the whole URL.
>The IPv6 Internet is a different network than the IPv4 Internet.
>Same names invites confusion and unhappiness.
Hmmm, I draw the opposite conclusion. The network layers are
different but the service ends are the same, so I would prefer the
$same_name.
If you want to read Dilbert on-line and I tell you that it is
available at a certain URL, would you rather I give you
"http://www.dilbert.com" or that I send you "if you use IPv4 then
http://www.dilbert.com" else if you use IPv6 then
http://www6.dilbert.com else buy a newspaper"?
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