[12624] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Einar Stefferud)
Tue May 24 19:44:54 1994
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 May 1994 21:39:18 EDT."
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Reply-To: Stef@nma.com
From: Einar Stefferud <Stef@nma.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 10:08:04 -0700
Hi Barry -- The primary problem with using something for a new purpose
when it was designed and honed for use in another is that it does not
account to all your new use requirements.
Some critical things are surely missing.
I only have time to pick on one thing you said that is centrral to the
whole business of using phone numbers.
}Don't you think the huge directory services and namespace management
]functions provided by the world's phone companies are worth a moment's
}thought before being tossed aside? I do.
have you ever noticed how many wrong number you get from people who
called The Ph0one Comany to get someone elses nummbers?
I get 10-1 wring number calls vs right number calls for people who get
my number (rightly or wrongly) from the phone company.
It is important to notre how the 555-1212 service works now that The
Phone Company has automated the response adn put pressure on the himan
operators to max the number of respones per unit time.
Here is how it works:
You call, tell them who./what you are looking for, hey decide which of
the things on their screen are what you want, shunt you to the coice
response, and go to the next, leaving you now way back to them in the
event of an error.
So, you call to get the number for Network systems and I get a call at
Network Managemtn Assocites, Inc to Network Systems, adn there is no
feedback to 555-1212 that the result was completely bogus.
>From the phoe companies side, it looks fine. They get no indications
back (that are ever recorded) that the result was not 100% corect.
You rally need to study and evaluate how The Phone Company operates
its directory service before yo load our entire addressing and
directory scheme on top of it.
My conclusion is that you are welcome to go off down that track, but I
am not going with you when you go.
Nuff said for now...\Stef
