[12459] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Deutsch)
Wed May 18 12:45:38 1994
From: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 21:40:46 -0400
In-Reply-To: H Morrow Long's message as of May 17, 21:30
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
[ You wrote: ]
> In <9405171957.AA08924@expresso.bunyip.com>
> Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com> wrote (although I'm not quite sure if he
> was serious) : ...
But how could you doubt it. I certainly have no previous
record of levity, do I?
> >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 :-)
Actually, wouldn't that be for _all_ identical twins, plus
anyone older than about 94 years, 4 months and oh, say 17 days?
Still, this may be a small enough number of people that we
could handle it with simple chaining of hash pools.
On the other hand, if you think it feasible to build a "large
sparse array" keyed on the total number of base pairs in
the human genome, then I suppose every single identical
twin, person older than 94 and the entire population of
Michigan is probably seen as statisical noise to you! :-)
- peterd
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