[12366] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John C Klensin)
Mon May 16 21:36:21 1994
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 16:16:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: "John C Klensin" <klensin@infoods.unu.edu>
Reply-To: klensin@infoods.unu.edu
To: dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu
Cc: PAUL@tdr.com, PVM@isi.edu, bigz@rice.edu, com-priv@psi.com,
hostmaster@internic.net, hostmaster@nic.ddn.mil, ja@ess.cs.ucl.ac.uk,
namedroppers@rs.internic.net, pullen@darpa.mil, postel@isi.edu
In message Mon, 16 May 1994 10:23:51 -0700,
dcrocker@Mordor.Stanford.EDU (Dave Crocker) writes:
> [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.
Dave,
I see one major problem with this (in addition to the obvious ones). For
reasons that range from privacy to security to local custom and general
cussedness, some people have fairly hidden home addresses. Post office
boxes, private mail drops, rural route numbers, and just house names (been
to Carmel lately?), etc. all serve as surrogates for
[apt/ste.]number.street
In other countries and areas, such as parts of the UK, the problem is much
worse. Those surrogates, unlike actual building addresses, do require
registration arrangements that transcend natural administrative domains.
And, while the postal system in a given area might be a natural registrar
(they control the postal codes, know where various entities actually are,
and postal codes in many countries now identify rather small geographic/
population area), I think any of us can think of good reasons for not
turning network domain registration over to those people.
john
