[12497] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re:About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Thu May 19 16:14:08 1994
Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 21:08:16 -0700
To: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
From: dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu (Dave Crocker)
Cc: dfazio@mr.net, com-priv@psi.com
At 5:41 PM 5/17/94, Barry Shein wrote:
>From: dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu (Dave Crocker)
>>oh, yeah. one of the other problems with phone numbers is that its
>>most-to-least progression is in reverse order from the dns...
>
>Is that really a constraint we need to accept in a re-design?
Ummm. Redesign? The DNS is what it is. Phone numbers are what they are.
What 'redesign' are you considering?
>Well, hey, then reverse the tuples. It's still as sensible as anything
>we have now (to the human eye.)
No, I'm afraid it's not. If you are going to suggest use of an existing
labeling scheme, then familiarity of that scheme is part of its strength.
If you start changing it, the benefit from the familiarity is vastly
reduced.
>Or software can reverse the tuples. They're just strings even tho they
This line of logic gets used frequently. It doesn't work. Domain names
are exchanged among humans. We need to specify a form that works in that
mode.
>None of that seems daunting to me when compared with changes that
>would be necessitated by other proposed schemes.
Ummm. Please describe the 'changes' that are required by the
geographic/postal scheme.
Dave
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