On Sat, 26 May 2007, Will Hargrave wrote:
Joe Provo wrote:
An obvious catalyst was commercialization of domains. Which interestingly enough leads us back to the lack of categories and naming morass in which we live. I find it quite humourous that new 'restrictive membership' branches of the tree are now being proposed as a solution to the problem of identity (eg, .bank to "solve" phishing). Unless there will be some level of enforcement teeth, we will see the same situtaion that played out in 94/95:
On a national level it's probably fairly easy to work this sort of thing out. Lists of banks exist, as do lists of schools (.sch.uk is prepopulated). The .ltd.uk and .plc.uk are only available to people with the appropriate company form but aren't really that popular.
There's a larger issue of not just practicalities but is this in fact an appropriate use for DNS? DNS isn't a security mechanism.
and studies have already shown that 98% of the populace doesn't know: www.bankovamerica.com from <a href="http://www.bankovamerica.com">www.bankofamerica.com</a> where the thing is pointed (.bank .secure .hereliesgoodness) isn't relevant so much as making the bad thing go away as quickly as possible... unless there's a way to discourage it from being made in the first place, which brings us back to the monetary incentives and policy to provide such.