more on Worth reading Wall Street Journal on fragmentation of the Internet

["David Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: Bjørn Vermo [mailto:bv () norbionics com] 
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Subject: Re: [IP] more on Worth reading Wall Street Journal on fragmentation
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:41:06 +0100, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Fred Baker <fred () cisco com>
>
> As to the balkanization of the net, it is in a certain sense inescapable.

Not only is this true, the whole idea of a centralized control over the  
url namespace is totally contrary to the ideas of decentralization which  
internet technology is based on.

Both the worldwide postal system and the telegraph and telephone systems  
have worked perfectly well, in war and peace, without any central  
supervisor. Regular meetings to agree upon procedures have been  
sufficient. There is no reason why the domain name system should be an  
exception - unless you see the urge of an existing bureaucracy to protect  
their cushy jobs as a compelling reason.

The whole issue is in any case probably moot. How many people type in URLs  
in their browsers to go to a website? How many make a Google search and  
select a search result without even looking at the URL? Google and  
whatever competition they have at any time are our new "root", ant they  
work equally well with naked IP addresses or even the long IP v.6  
addresses which normal people are definitely unable to remember many of.

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