At 4:16 PM 8/1/95, Walter O. Haas wrote:
My thinking has evolved away from geographically based names... the Internet is erasing geography, and I think that we would be living in the past if we relied too much on geography in naming. It might make sense for "joes-garage" to be a geographically-qualified domain since the market for automobile repair is likely to be within a few miles of the business, but my little one-man consulting corporation is located in Salt Lake City with it's biggest customer in St. Louis. For a business with essentially no geographic barriers, such as mine, it doesn't make much sense to include geography in the name regardless of where the corporation is registered.
Walt; This is true for non-geographic markets, but what happens when the Internet reaches a size where geographic markets develop? In other words, when it makes sense to buy pizza on the Net, won't it make sense to revive geographic naming, to serve geographic markets? --Kent
This is true for non-geographic markets, but what happens when the Internet reaches a size where geographic markets develop?
In other words, when it makes sense to buy pizza on the Net, won't it make sense to revive geographic naming, to serve geographic markets?
There are also organizations, such as ours, which cannot sanely aggregate traffic on a geographic measure, since a single gateway to a corporate network (which may span the globe) may be located in Duluth. We simply cannot sanely assign networks on a geographical basis. This would be farcical. CIDR'isation in this case would be on a corporate/organizational level. In this thread, no one has yet mentoned this particular issue. i realize that this has _no_ impact on domain naming, yet it is indeed an issue which has been overlooked by most providers. - paul _______________________________________________________________________________ Paul Ferguson US Sprint tel: 703.689.6828 Managed Network Engineering internet: paul@hawk.sprintmrn.com Reston, Virginia USA http://www.sprintmrn.com
This is true for non-geographic markets, but what happens when the Internet reaches a size where geographic markets develop?
In other words, when it makes sense to buy pizza on the Net, won't it make sense to revive geographic naming, to serve geographic markets?
There are also organizations, such as ours, which cannot sanely aggregate traffic on a geographic measure, since a single gateway to a corporate network (which may span the globe) may be located in Duluth. We simply cannot sanely assign networks on a geographical basis. This would be farcical. CIDR'isation in this case would be on a corporate/organizational level.
In this thread, no one has yet mentoned this particular issue.
i realize that this has _no_ impact on domain naming, yet it is indeed an issue which has been overlooked by most providers.
- paul
Check the followup on bigz. The summary is that the container is not the thing contained. -- --bill
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