[12640] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: About the creation of new 3-letter domain(s)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Wed May 25 01:52:37 1994
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 May 1994 17:19:26 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 16:22:16 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> I thought this entire conversation started because it was noted that
> DNS as it is currently used won't scale.
>
> If it's fine and everyone is happy by all means let's not change
> anything.
Two things leap to mind. First, just because your phone# proposal won't fly
is no reason to assume that the problem it purports to solve doesn't exist;
and second, it is not at all clear that the problem it purports to solve ever
existed. The DNS tree is too flat for current technology. We can either
solve this with a protocol or design change, or we can solve it with a name
allocation change, or we can wait for technology to get better.
I think this issue has been discussed here much longer than it deserved. If
you or someone you know thinks that individuals should be able to get domain
names without flattening out the ``already too-flat'' DNS tree, then by all
means start a domain park and sell space in it. You can charge trivial, one-
time amounts per domain and still, if your ideology is sound and people actual-
ly want what you're proposing, do quite a bit better than cost recovery.
Let's move on.
