[28] in resnet
Name service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Wed May 19 17:11:50 1993
To: pshuang@Athena.MIT.EDU, resnet@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 17:11:22 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
>Someone who starts to run a business out of their dorm rooms would want
>to have the same phone number follow them around even if they move from
>dorm to dorm
Students are not allowed to run businesses in the dorms, or at least they
weren't while I lived there. This is a new situation, since there is now a
legitimate service that can be provided from a dorm room.
Hiring an infinite number of students to manage name allocation wouldn't
help, because the actual database changes are handled by a few people. I
think it would cost at least $1 in salary+overhead to support a name change.
There's also the problem of approving names. It may be easier to say 100
times "you don't get to choose a hostname" than to say once "we won't allow
that hostname".
