[12463] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Schlitt)
Wed May 18 16:58:09 1994
Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 13:08:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dan Schlitt <dan@ees1a0.engr.ccny.cuny.edu>
To: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu>
Cc: bigz@rice.edu, namedroppers@rs.internic.net, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <a9fff81a06021011f39a@[128.102.17.23]>
In the mass market case won't the assignment of ip-addresses and domain
name registration fall on the provider. So the question is if the
provider will put up with the hassle of administration.
/dan
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Dan Schlitt School of Engineering Computer Systems
dan@ee-mail.engr.ccny.cuny.edu City College of New York
(212)650-6760 New York, NY 10031
On Wed, 18 May 1994, Dave Crocker wrote:
> At 9:32 AM 5/18/94, Masataka Ohta wrote:
> >If you have a father named "Dave Crocker" living with you, you, anyway
> >have a name conflict. So, location is no good anyway. To resolve it,
> >use diferent name with first come first served base or register the
> >same name under different place.
>
> As I said in the discussion of the postal address proposal, the goal is to
> create a sub-domain with a small enough granularity so that it will be easy
> to resolve naming conflicts. In my view, resolving them within my
> household is easy. Resolving them in a larger scope gets into various
> administrative and even legal complexities.
>
> All of this whimsy is, of course, great fun. But how will this be
> administered? What will it take to register? I believe that we are
> suffering from the problem is expecting the mass market of users to be as
> willing to put up with large amounts of procedural effort as we are. But
> 'they' are not the same as 'us', I believe and we have an obligation to
> make the process far simpler than it currently is.
>
>
>
> Dave
>
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