[12609] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Tue May 24 08:25:50 1994
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 04:42:18 -0400
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@sprint.net>
To: bzs@world.std.com, paul@vix.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Barry,
Didn't you tired of arguing about details of a scheme which is proven
inferior to DNS as it is?
After all, "telephone numbers" for networking exist for over two decades --
go to any telco and ask for an X.121 address. You'll find it surprisingly
like your telephone number.
In the telephone world numbering was (and often still is) a function of
topology of the physical network and its "geographicalness" is simply
the consequence of world-wide monopolism of PTTs. X.121 recognized that
(the next field after the country code is "service provider" digit) but
it still tied to wires. So there is no "easy" way to get unassigned
numbers w/o wasting capacity here and there.
DNS itself is fine; if stubbornness of some DNS administrators is the
problem then go ahead -- get a 1st-level domain (under .ORG or .INT or
whatever) and start registering anybody you want under it! Try to do
that with phone numbers (i actually advise you to do that and then,
being aided with the benefit of experience, preach to us how great the
phone numbering is).
Thank you for sharing the idea (though i firmly believe it won't fly)
and please move the discussion out of the list -- it's getting boring.
There are more appropriate places for it (comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains,
for example, though people there may disagree).
--vadim (yes, i have had registered a top-level domain :-)
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