[12378] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur Abraham)
Tue May 17 08:51:32 1994
From: a2@ah.com (Arthur Abraham)
To: ds@ganymede.com
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 19:44:25 -40962758 (PDT)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9405161734.AA0053@Studmuffin.Ganymede.Com> from "ds@ganymede.com" at May 16, 94 10:29:50 am
David Scott writes:
>
> Where did the idea for geographical domains come from in the
> first place? Is there a compelling technical rationale for
> it or is (was) it just a sop to OSI-minded bureaucrats? It
> seems to me that geography is becoming less and less
> relevant in the electronic medium...
>
In his most recent novel, _Virtual Light_, William Gibson writes
of a bicycle courier in a post-earthquake San Francisco, who he
describes as working at "...the archaic intersection of information
and geography."
I hope this serves to place the concept of geographical domains
in their proper historical concept.
-a2
