[12347] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Mon May 16 16:41:26 1994
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 10:23:51 -0700
To: postel@isi.edu (Jon Postel)
From: dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu (Dave Crocker)
Cc: PAUL@tdr.com, namedroppers@rs.internic.net, bigz@rice.edu,
com-priv@psi.com, ja@ess.cs.ucl.ac.uk, pullen@darpa.mil, PVM@isi.edu,
hostmaster@internic.net, hostmaster@nic.ddn.mil
Registering my own reactions to the PVT proposal:
There are various criticism against use of geography-based hierarchical
naming. They are all valid.
Nonetheless, I've become convinced that this is the only reasonable scheme
available to us. We understand geographic schemes. National boundaries
often are of fundamental importance do to political and legal rules. We
can re-use existing schemes. If we do it right, we can eliminate the need
for a registration authority or, at least, greatly reduce the amount of
registration work necessary.
For the scaling of the Internet that we are seeing, I believe it is
essential that we at least ADD this alternative.
Having thought about "granularity" of the domain scheme necessary to
comfortably allow minimal collisions and easy registration of the mass
market, I've come to believe that we need a scheme which is predicated
on...
[apt/ste.]number.street.city.region.postal-code.country
This allows the 'final' registration authority to be a house, so that
competition for the machine/person field is within a small and autonomous
group. Better, there is no need for a global or official assignment
authority to administer this.
Yes, it is much, much longer than any of us would like. Mnemonically, it
isn't all that bad, though and can be derived from the average business or
return postal address. But that seems to be the price of scaling and easy
administration.
Dave
+1 408 246 8253 (fax: +1 408 249 6205)
