[12489] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hood)
Thu May 19 04:46:58 1994
Date: Thu, 19 May 94 02:21:49 EDT
To: sean@dsl.pitt.edu
From: cgullpcm@ftp.com (John Hood)
Reply-To: cgull@ftp.com
Cc: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu, com-priv@psi.com, namedroppers@rs.internic.net
Sean writes:
Absolutely! In the past 9 years, my phone number, mail address, physical
location (and even description) have changed, but my e-mail address
hasn't, in part because it hasn't been tied to anything physical. With
PCS just around the corner, does it really make sense to attach an
address to anything physical (besides the user)? Because of subnetting,
IP addresses are (for the most part) geographical and this can cause all
sorts of headaches. Why repeat this for logical names?
This is a real problem?
I live in Somerville (*which* Somerville is left as an exercise for
the reader.) My home system is smoke.marlboro.vt.us, and down Mass
Ave a ways (~1 km) is asylum.sf.ca.us, neither of which is in their
"proper" place, because there isn't such a thing. Both these names
were acquired in the usual way and followed their systems to new
homes. The .US administrators don't care. They don't have to.
remember, allocating names out of a geographically-constructed
hierarchy doesn't mean the hierarchy is geographical.
--john hood
