[12457] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (H Morrow Long)
Wed May 18 11:56:12 1994
Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 21:30:50 -0400
From: long-morrow@cs.yale.edu (H Morrow Long)
To: jlw@cs.columbia.edu, nettech@crl.com, peterd@bunyip.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
In <9405171957.AA08924@expresso.bunyip.com>
Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com> wrote (although I'm not quite sure if he
was serious) : ...
>Given the current rapid advances in mapping the human
>genome, perhaps we can simply have everyone use their own
>unique DNA pattern as their network ID? To save space, we
>could look at some way so we wont have to have everyone
>use the full 23 chromosomes and however many bazzilion
>base pairs. In fact, we might get away with using suitable
>diff's taken off a reference set of DNA. Anyone want to
>speculate on the possibility of collisions and propose
>resolution algorithms???
A fairly simple hash function with a large sparse array should lead
to few collisions but they could be handled easily enough by tacking
on the individual's date of birth to the closest millisecond since
00:00:00 GMT January 1 1900 (which should be sufficient for all cases
except a few rare sets of identical twins :-)
- H. Morrow Long
