[NANOG] Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play

Thu Mar 8 02:00:52 UTC 2001

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Steven J. Sobol wrote:

> I'll register icann.sucks :)

I'll register DNS.sucks

The whole idea of unique human-readable names is broken (I would go as far
as to say that the idea of any global name space is silly :)  Note that
the "address space" and "name space" are different because addresses
cannot be arbitrarily allocated, and therefore cannot be contentious.

The only real solutiuon to the present and future DNS woes is to replace
it with the hyperlinks, portals, address books and search engines - and
_no_ human-readable names.  This effectively creates as many "roots" as
there are users.  My "John Doe" is not the same as your "John Doe" :)

--vadim

PS	I know, I know, it is politically impossible to abolish DNS
	wholesale.  Any progress is politically impossible.