[12474] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Wed May 18 20:00:51 1994
To: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Cc: dfazio@mr.net, com-priv@psi.com
Cc: dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 18 May 94 02:11:24 -0400.
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Date: Wed, 18 May 94 16:29:37 -0700
From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu>
Barry,
Perhaps I stepped into the twilight zone?
---- Included message:
>If you start changing it, the benefit from the familiarity is vastly
>reduced.
Ok, let's consider using phone numbers backwards to preserve DNS
Now, you agree with my goal and then recommend using phone numbers
backwards. I'm clearly missing some step you've taken that you believe
to be consistent with the goal.
To repeat: If you change how the number is used (presented, etc.) then
you lose some of the benefit of its familiarity.
Thus we have saved current DNS practice and the idea stands with only
one remaining design problem:
How to indicate how tuple order is being presented so it can be
DNS-normalized if needed (i.e. reversed.)
I take it that you are not familiar with the Rose/Malamud remote-printing
experiment (which one otherwise might call Internet-to-fax)? It uses
phone numbers. You put one number in each dns subdomain, in reverse
order. The human factors are poor.
Perhaps that doesn't quite do it but it's a start. We need a pad
Rules for number grouping are highly variable. That's why the remote-
printing stuff doesn't try to guess or make the user guess.
Dave
