On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Adrian Chadd wrote:
FOr example. Wouldn't it make more logical sense if there existed a domain 'movie.com' with which movies were registered under?
I quite agree that it would make more logical sense. It would also make more logical sense if all babies were assigned to a profession at birth and all Internet providers were licensed by the State Bandwidth Demand and Supply Board. But there is more to life than logic and "sense". Therefore I prefer a naming system that is diverse and chaotic and I'm confident that such a system would evolve into something that would be of more use to more people than a hierarchical taxonomy.
With the sheer amount of information on the internet today there really needs to be a decent distributed indexing system for all of it. DNS could have been it if it were maintained a little more thoughtfully from the beginning.
Dream on. DNS is an addressing scheme just like "123 Any St., Anytown, USA". It does a job that needed to be done, more or less well. If you want something different then find people who will pay for it and build it. I suspect you will find that there is little demand and no money available to build a universal index of everything there is. -- Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Communications Inc. - E-mail: michael@memra.com http://www.memra.com - *check out the new name & new website*