[12514] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri May 20 02:42:25 1994
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@panix.com>
To: long-morrow@cs.yale.edu (H Morrow Long)
Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 09:41:42 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: jlw@cs.columbia.edu, nettech@crl.com, peterd@bunyip.com, postel@isi.edu,
PAUL@tdr.com, PVM@isi.edu, bigz@rice.edu, com-priv@psi.com,
hostmaster@internic.net, hostmaster@nic.ddn.mil, ja@ess.cs.ucl.ac.uk,
namedroppers@rs.internic.net, pullen@darpa.mil
In-Reply-To: <199405180130.AA23441@SPARKY.CF.CS.YALE.EDU> from "H Morrow Long" at May 17, 94 09:30:50 pm
> A fairly simple hash function with a large sparse array should lead
> to few collisions but they could be handled easily enough by tacking
> on the individual's date of birth to the closest millisecond since
> 00:00:00 GMT January 1 1900 (which should be sufficient for all cases
> except a few rare sets of identical twins :-)
You guys seem to miss the privacy point here -- many people do not
wish to reveal any personal information about themselves, be it
phone numbers, addresses, dates of birth, or _anything_.
That was the point of the .PID idea, with unique meaningless numbers.
I think this is somewhat academic, though. It seems pretty unlikely
to me that such a system would be adopted in the near future. Besides,
isn't there an IETF WG chartered for this stuff?
--
John Hawkinson
jhawk@panix.com
