[12532] 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 11:39:06 1994
Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 10:33:33 -0700
To: Dan Schlitt <dan@ees1a0.engr.ccny.cuny.edu>
From: dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu (Dave Crocker)
Cc: bigz@rice.edu, namedroppers@rs.internic.net, com-priv@psi.com
At 10:08 AM 5/18/94, Dan Schlitt wrote:
>In the mass market case won't the assignment of ip-addresses and domain
>name registration fall on the provider. So the question is if the
>provider will put up with the hassle of administration.
Good questions.
1. The IPng work is trying very hard to make address assignment automatic.
Further, IP addresses are decreasingly visible to end-users. In
particular, we put domain names -- in the form of email addresses -- on our
business cards. We are far less tied to IP addresses.
2. While there is debate about having to change IP addresses when you
change providers, there is no debate about having to do for domain names.
Currently, this requires a substantial, separate administrative system for
the providers to interact with, when registering domain names. I'm
suggesting we adopt a scheme that does not have that overhead. It is
certainly true that we could take the telephone system approach (although
each provider controls their own name space, currently, so that they have
internal, rather than separate and shared, administration for name
assingment). I'm suggesting we not. I'm suggesting we define a scheme
that is self-assigning, within the context of the Internet. In partular,
I'm suggesting we slave ourselves to an existing assignment system which
operates globally and well.
Dave
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