[12410] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles R Fidelman)
Tue May 17 20:51:57 1994
Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 17:40:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Miles R Fidelman <fidelman@civicnet.org>
To: H Morrow Long <long-morrow@cs.yale.edu>
Cc: jlw@cs.columbia.edu, nettech@crl.com, postel@isi.edu, 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
In-Reply-To: <199405171334.AA21575@SPARKY.CF.CS.YALE.EDU>
> In "A Concept for Personal Identifier Domain Names", Jon Postel proposed:
>
> > <simple-name>.<low>.<high>.PID
>
Since the major reason for this is to distribute namespace management,
how about either of the following as an alternative:
<personal-name>.<authority>.PID
or
<personal-name>.PID.<authority>
where <authority> is an organization that has stepped up to managing a
namespace
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