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Moving Beyond Domain Names
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:26:47 -0800
Lauren Weinstein recently noted to his Network Neutrality Squad mailing list:
We may well have reached (or already passed) the point where we should be working seriously toward the ultimate elimination of domain names as the primary user-facing addressing aspect of the World Wide Web as perceived by most of its users.
Why not? Domain names are useless anyway: hardly any basic network applications use them, and they just hide the reality of IP addresses from users. Out with 'em! Any fool who can use "My Computer" can learn to recognize 127.0.0.1! Just think: by eliminating domain names, we avoid all the security issues with DNS! And when we move to IPv6, who is going to have a problem remembering 39 character hex addresses? OK, a few technopeasants might object, but that just gives the redirection/URL shortening sites more inventive to pay a little extra for the "low" addresses. What am I bid for ::1? Heck, it's even shorter than bit.ly (which some mailing list whose name escapes me at the moment uses fairly consistently ...) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org Why be normal? - rms victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/NoticeBored http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- Moving Beyond Domain Names Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Mar 12)
- Re: Moving Beyond Domain Names Martin Tomasek (Mar 13)
- Re: Moving Beyond Domain Names Dave Paris (Mar 13)
- Re: Moving Beyond Domain Names Martin Tomasek (Mar 13)