On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 02:08:12PM -0700, Michael Dillon wrote:
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.
Huh? Where'd _that_ come from? I think his suggestion was a passable one, to try and fit an observed reality into a (for the moment) fixed taxonomy. .movie would probably be a better solution, but we're not going there (yet).
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.
Might we say "flexible" instead? What, precisely, are you suggesting? Hierarchicality is almost forced by the architectural design of the current implementation of DNS; and I got a hot scoop for you: you won't get a flag day on DNS.
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.
It would be you, would it not, who "wants something different"? You're correct, making DNS into anything except a very coarse index is infeasible. But I don't see any reason to specifically _avoid_ using DNS as at least a classification tool so people know what to expect when they go somewhere. We're veering far off-topic for NANOG here, quick; let's get back on topic before everyone flies home. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com