[12527] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Fri May 20 09:20:12 1994
Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 09:55:12 -0700
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
From: dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu (Dave Crocker)
Cc: bigz@rice.edu, namedroppers@rs.internic.net, com-priv@psi.com
At 9:32 AM 5/18/94, Masataka Ohta wrote:
>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.
As I said in the discussion of the postal address proposal, the goal is to
create a sub-domain with a small enough granularity so that it will be easy
to resolve naming conflicts. In my view, resolving them within my
household is easy. Resolving them in a larger scope gets into various
administrative and even legal complexities.
>For example, Jon's proposal:
>
> <simple-name>.<low>.<high>.PID
>
>allows a lot of different places. People can choose thier favourite numbers
All of this whimsy is, of course, great fun. But how will this be
administered? What will it take to register? I believe that we are
suffering from the problem is expecting the mass market of users to be as
willing to put up with large amounts of procedural effort as we are. But
'they' are not the same as 'us', I believe and we have an obligation to
make the process far simpler than it currently is.
Dave
+1 408 246 8253 (fax: +1 408 249 6205)
