[12524] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Fri May 20 08:02:40 1994
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
To: dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu (Dave Crocker)
Date: Thu, 19 May 94 1:32:42 JST
Cc: bigz@rice.edu, namedroppers@rs.internic.net, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <a9fec2a822021011efe0@[128.102.17.23]>; from "Dave Crocker" at May 17, 94 11:57 am
> Jon,
>
> Unfortunately, I believe the current geography-based scheme doesn't have
> the right granularity. It resolves to the level of a city and I'm
> suggesting something which self-assigns more finely than that.
If you have a father named "Dave Crocker" living with you, you, anyway
have a name conflict. So, location is no good anyway. To resolve it,
use diferent name with first come first served base or register the
same name under different place.
For example, Jon's proposal:
<simple-name>.<low>.<high>.PID
allows a lot of different places. People can choose thier favourite numbers
such as birth year, part of phone number or anything else. But, unlike
postal-code based scheme, we can't expect post offices partly take over
IANA's job in the future.
So, instead, all the new reqest should be processed by automatic
mechanisms through e-mail to some address, say "namemaster.<high>.pid".
Somee authentication is desirable for mails requesting modification.
For the time being, we need 10 or 100 voluntary machines to serve
as name servers of 1000 zones: <high>.pid. The machines should also
run automatic registration mechanisms.
Masataka Ohta
