Re: Shared data base access by registries

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>]

I think Aveek raises a very important point here, although he ended
his note with a smiley.  :-)

The reason why the Domain Name System is so enormously successful, and
why my subscribing to this list has increased my message count
exponentially, is that it is much easier for most humans to associate
a name to a particular person (or machine) than it is to remember 2^32
numbers.

Please bear this in mind when making ludicrous assumptions that adding
"thousands" of new TLD's is a piece of cake.

US$.02,

- paul


At 09:38 AM 11/19/96 -0500, Aveek Datta wrote:

>Impractical. We have enough arguments of whether people would use other
>TLDs than .COM even if they were better service, cheaper, etc, but if
>they are hard enough to actually tell someone over the phone or to
>remember off advertising, then we might as well just disable DNS and use
>IP numbers.
>
>Come to http://205.185.63.166 
>