[12415] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barney Wolff)
Tue May 17 22:23:08 1994
Date: Tue, 17 May 94 18:30 EDT
From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To: long-morrow@cs.yale.edu (H Morrow Long), jlw@cs.columbia.edu,
nettech@crl.com, postel@isi.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
> Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 09:34:49 -0400
> From: long-morrow@cs.yale.edu (H Morrow Long)
> If you wanted you could still delegate the adminstration of thousands
> (e.g. the *.9999.US-SS.PID or *.9999.PID.US domains ) or more
> (e.g. the *.99.9999.US-SS.PID or *.99.9999.PID.US domains )
> to a multitude of volunteers - rather than centralizing the function.
It seems to me we're solving the wrong problem here. If we want to scale,
the issue is not so much how many entries a name server can contain before
it becomes unmanageable, but the rate of new and modified registrations.
If we had an automated way to register, we wouldn't need thousands of
volunteers.
Any of these schemes runs into the old issue of how to prevent me from
registering something which looks like *your* id. But I'm very much
opposed to using SSN as an id.
In all schemes, there still is no concept of an anonymous domain. It will
be perfectly possible to ask a name server, or at least a nic, who owns
any domain. There is a tradeoff here - while it might be nice to establish
a special domain called anonymous.pvt, what will happen when somebody
registers as coke.pepsi.anonymous.pvt?
If we're trying to establish domain names that people can keep for life,
geo-coding makes no sense at all - people move. There is a little tradition
here - for example, the ACM offers its members a permanent email id of
<some-form-of-name>@acm.org, and perhaps it is not a crazy notion to
imagine that various organizations might offer name servers as a benefit
to their members. Of course, if your views change, so must your domain.
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