[12397] 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 16:31:38 1994
Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 08:53:34 -0700
To: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
From: dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu (Dave Crocker)
Cc: dfazio@mr.net, com-priv@psi.com
Phone numbers are them other plausible proposal. In various discussions
over the last few years, I've sensed that people are less comfortable using
that than postal addresses. (An entirely subject and biased sampling, no
doubt.) I think that there also has been some concern that not everyone
has a telephone number but they DO have a postal address. This of course
leads to the minor question of why they need an Internet domain name if
they don't have a telephone...
Oh. Yeah. There is ONE technical drawback to phone numbers. They
sometimes resolve to too-large a granularity, such as one number for an
entire company. This makes the size of the administrative domain for
resolving things a bit larger than I had been seeking. With the postal
model, we can plug in mailstops, room numbers or the like, to get the
granularity small enough.
Otherwise, my own view is that it's a toss-up between phone number and
postal address.
At 8:12 PM 5/16/94, Barry Shein wrote:
>Re: multi-level geographical domain names...
>
>Well, hmm, then why not just use phone numbers (country codes, area
>codes, etc) and be done with it? It's shorter, I know I can reach
>almost any phone in the world with around 14 digits.
Dave
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