Message: 7 Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:31:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> Subject: Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora'sBox of To: davids@webmaster.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Message-ID: <200806290231.m5T2VXob020706@aurora.sol.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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I don't see what you're saying as supporting ICANN's actions. If DNS is irrelevant for these purposes, then why bother "making a bad solution a bit worse." Just let it become, over the next 25 years, some mid-level directory resource that users see less and less of, until it's almost as irrelevant as IP address.
One could make the argument this is already the case. If I want to find a particular web site for a specific local company, I usually search in google rather than try and find the web site by guessing the name. So in reality the web site name is already irrelevant for local small businesses. For large national and international companies, we can mostly depend on .com mapping correctly as they have spent large sums of money protecting their brands. Ie. mcdonalds.com maps to the fast food joint rather than some other family owned business. In 25 years a name will map to .com or be irrelevant with the current proposal. I would be happy to be proven wrong but time will tell.
(*I* don't buy that, but then again, I'm making the argument that we've really screwed up with DNS)
... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
-- LR Mack McBride Network Administrator Alpha Red, Inc.