Subject: RE: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens upPandora's Box of Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:25:38 -0700 From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb@byrneit.net> To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>

Shouldn't we take all the ICANNt and DNS Related stuff to dns-operations?

Seems more "on-topic" there...

-----Original Message----- From: Jay R. Ashworth [mailto:jra@baylink.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:48 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens upPandora's Box of

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 12:04:57PM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:

...

In article <20080630212216.GJ8195@cgi.jachomes.com>, Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> writes

...

The Domain Name System is not now, and never has been, away to

*find*

...

...

things, anymore than 123 Elm St, Worcester MA is a way to *find* a house.

What about "1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA" ?

Or 1 Tech Data Drive, Largo, or 1 Infinite Loop; yeah, there are lots

of

good examples of why addresses are random and shouldn't be used to *locate* things... except as keys into directories.

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