Re: Shared data base access by registries

["Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>]

DNS names are also more permanent than IP addresses.  The increasing supply
tightness and nature of routing technology means IPv4 renumbering will happen
with increasing frequency.  And IPv6 is being designed with the thought that
automatic renumbers will be common. 

I also think that it is unlikely that registration procedures among the over
2**2000 possible domain names is a similar problem to the allocation of the
increasingly short supply of less than 2**32 IPv4 unicast addresses. 

Donald

On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Paul Ferguson wrote:

> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 23:12:02 -0500
> From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
> To: Aveek Datta <MoNoLiTH+@CMU.EDU>
> Cc: iahc-discuss@iahc.org
> Subject: Re: Shared data base access by registries
> 
> ...
>
> 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 
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