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Re: names are not numbers, was IPv4 address length technical design
From: Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 16:05:09 -0400
Back in the 80s when DNS was a fairly new idea and things like Google were way in the future I remember suggesting on the TCP-IP list that people grab a phone number they owned as a domain name and add first_last as a mailbox so we could leverage the international phone directory system to find each other. For example something like barry_shein () 0016176403067 com (maybe insert a letter, all-digits wasn't allowed back then.) I guess that sort of idea was eventually incorporated into telephone number mapping but not clear how successful that is or if the intent is really the same. I think there were other analogues? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number_mapping But the idea has come up. -- -Barry Shein The World | bzs () TheWorld com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*
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- Re: IPv4 address length technical design, (continued)
- Re: IPv4 address length technical design Barry Shein (Oct 06)
- Re: IPv4 address length technical design Cutler James R (Oct 06)
- Re: IPv4 address length technical design Barry Shein (Oct 07)
- Re: IPv4 address length technical design Steven Noble (Oct 07)
- RE: IPv4 address length technical design Paul Vinciguerra (Oct 07)
- Re: IPv4 address length technical design William Herrin (Oct 07)
- Re: IPv4 address length technical design George Herbert (Oct 07)
- Re: IPv4 address length technical design Jay Ashworth (Oct 07)
- Re: names are not numbers, was IPv4 address length technical design John Levine (Oct 06)
- Re: names are not numbers, was IPv4 address length technical design Joe Hamelin (Oct 06)
- Re: names are not numbers, was IPv4 address length technical design Barry Shein (Oct 07)
- Re: IPv4 address length technical design William Herrin (Oct 07)
- Re: IPv4 address length technical design Tony Finch (Oct 08)