Dan Kaminsky

Wed Aug 5 17:30:39 UTC 2009

>> It may sound too futuristic and inspired from science fiction, but I never saw
>> Captain Piccard typing a URL on the Enterprise.
>
>        That's ok, I've never seen the Enterprise at the airport.

Don't confuse sight with vision.

>> Sooner or later, we or the new generation of ietfers and nanogers, will need to
>> start thinking about a new naming paradigm and design the services and protocols
>> associated with it.
>>
>> The key question is, when we start?
>
>        Let's see how far the SMTP replacement has come, and get some inspiration.
>        Heck, it's an application that only _uses_ the DNS, should be easy.

It won't be quick, it won't be easy, and you will have to deal with
the establishment
that at all cost will keep trying to squeeze money out of the current system.

Cheers