[12615] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Tue May 24 15:52:56 1994
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 08:24:27 -0700
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu (Dave Crocker)
At 12:05 PM 5/21/94, Paul A Vixie wrote:
>If we need to change from the self-selected arbitrary system, the next best
>thing is an assigned-random arbitrary system such as Jon Postel's proposal.
A reference like an email address or a host name should display several
characteristics. While not critical to the 'interpretation' of the string,
it is very helpful to the 'specification' if the string has qualities that
facilitate detecting errors. (The cost of detecting an error much later,
e.g., when email is rejected by a valid but 'wrong' host, is quite high.)
For random number strings, checksum techniques probably will suffice. For
alphabetic strings, it helps if the string has some semantics. Semantics
also help for the 'retrieval' phase, when the specifier is trying to
remember the sucker.
The current round of discussion seems to be ignoring any issues pertaining
to retrieval or specification of the string.
Dave
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