[12502] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark R. Ludwig)
Thu May 19 19:38:35 1994
From: "Mark R. Ludwig" <Mark-Ludwig@uai.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 10:59:30 -0700
I like:
Mark-Ludwig@Universal-Analytics.3625.Del-Amo.Boulevard.Torrance.CA.US
because as much as I like to think
Mark-Ludwig@UAI.COM
is easier to remember, etc., it doesn't matter! Unless you only
correspond with a very small number of people, you'll have mail
aliases set up anyway. Besides that, is it "Mark-Ludwig,"
"Mark_Ludwig," or "Mark.Ludwig"? There are already several
conventions for such things, and not all sites are flexible in which
forms they accept, so one already needs an address book (gee, just
like Real Life)! Aliasing makes it easier only if you use the aliases
often enough, because eventually you forget those too.
To make addressing reasonable for other applications, there will need
to be a more general-purpose aliasing mechanism. I wouldn't want
someone to have to type that long address every time to use FTP,
TELNET, et al.
It would be even nicer if this scheme could facilitate fuzzy or
partial lookups, ala "directory assistance" in the phone world. It
would be reasonable to require the full thing when actually using it,
but be able to load the alias list/address book from the fuzzy
searches.$$
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