[12396] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Tue May 17 16:21:27 1994
Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 08:53:11 -0700
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu (Dave Crocker)
Folks,
The way that the Internet specification process works is that people have
general discussions about what they like and then one or more people
produce one or more candidate specifications.
At 8:06 AM 5/17/94, Noah Friedman wrote:
>Because physical (geographical) reality and virtual (topological) reality
>are two entirely different spaces. Why should email be forced to suffer
>the same limitations as the postal system?
If you have an alternative proposal to my spec and believe that it will
satisfy requirements for scaling, administration and use, then please do
offer it. General criticisms about unhappiness with a given proposal or
wishes for a better one don't help us get that better one. Only someone
writing it does. My proposal is the best that I can think of, within
real-world constraints. And while the Internet may support a virtual
reality, creating, running and using the Internet is constrained by the
more boring real reality.
>A few months ago I suggested an alternative domain naming scheme for load
>balancing without resorting to geographic names. The only question was how
>to delegate administration of domains (since they would no longer be
>geographically localized), for which the best solution I could think of
>off-hand was to hold a lottery. People may think that's a strange way to
>handle delegation, but with subdomains scattered all over the world, no POC
>for any domain is likely to be better than any other.
I didn't see your proposal on the namedroppers@rs.internic.net list, where
domain name specification work usually takes place. How does it handle
assignment -- a question of administrative ease
use -- a question of mnemonic and typing ease
Dave
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