Re: Where are we going?

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>]

At 01:32 PM 11/18/96 -0500, Bob Allisat wrote:

> The technical issues have been
> hashed out months ago. The consesus
> is that up to 10,000 new TLD's could
> be easily and readily accomodated
> without any difficulty. Too bad few
> of these IAHC people have had any
> exposure to past discussions.
>

To draw an apropos analogy, you can also build a flat network consisting
several hundred thousand end-systems, but it doesn't mean it will scale
or that performance will be acceptable. I personally think that adding
"10,000 new TLD's" is an absurd assumption, and that managing this name
space would be an exercise in futility, but that's just my own opinion.

Frankly, I don't see any major discrepancies in the current scheme, but
than again, I can also sympathize with people who would like a *couple*
more TLD's to accommodate well-known names which might be associated with
their business or organization.

This certainly merits discussion.

- paul