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Re: Statements against new.net?
From: Vadim Antonov <avg () kotovnik com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:43:58 -0800 (PST)
Removing DNS is kinda the wrong thing. Do *you* want to run NIS? :)
The proposal here is not to _remove_ DNS, it is needed to translate end-point IDs into transport-level addresses, but rather create a separate NS hierarchy which has only numeric "names"; and create some infrastructure around so anyone can come and get a numeric domain. It can even be made "free" by being subsidized by providers. My estimate is about one man-year to get it (and self-registration) up and running. If that structure is independent from ICANN, it will provide a ground for experimentation, _and_ safety for those who don't want to see their business or personal pursuits being harmed because of the present registry mess. Actually, services like that already exist, but they are vulnerable to the same name contention issues. I.e. what i am saying is that there's a need for contention-free and stable zone of namespace. The only way to eliminate contention is to make names devoid of intrinsic value. Numeric names are also not a subject to trademark law, and (not being choosen from a finite dictionary) are not scarce. --vadim
Current thread:
- RE: Statements against new.net?, (continued)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Mathew Butler (Mar 14)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Roeland Meyer (Mar 14)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Vadim Antonov (Mar 14)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Stephen Stuart (Mar 14)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Hank Nussbacher (Mar 15)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Stephen Stuart (Mar 15)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Scott Francis (Mar 15)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Patrick Greenwell (Mar 15)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Scott Francis (Mar 15)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Adrian Chadd (Mar 16)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Vadim Antonov (Mar 16)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Eric A. Hall (Mar 16)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Simon Higgs (Mar 17)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Mark Kosters (Mar 28)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Vadim Antonov (Mar 14)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Ben Browning (Mar 15)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Scott Francis (Mar 15)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Adrian Chadd (Mar 15)
- DNS Control mike harrison (Mar 15)
- Re: DNS Control Jim Dixon (Mar 15)
- Re: DNS Control mike harrison (Mar 15)