Re: don heath's comments

[Ron Fitzherbert <ron@penguin.net>]

Hmmm, domain names have NOTHING to do with making it easier to connect to
the internet -- nor does it HAVE to have anything to do with the ease of
use -- if we really want to make it earier to use AND to eliminate this
whole discussion lets just get rid of the current DNS system and revise
all protocols to use a "natural language mapping" system that could
replace the current DNS system?

# telnet 'compuserve in north america'

> Do you want the (I)ndividual or (C)orporate access point? __

Silly?  Probably, but I don't think anyone would disagree (unless you're
just after the big bucks) that a system something like that wouldn't make
much more sense *IF* we could revise the entire system from the ground up
-- but since we can't we need to come up with some other way of doing
things.

If people are so concerned that they feel we need "hundreds" of new domain
names why don't we just drop names and use IP?  We have bookmarks and
address books these days -- I don't see why it'll be any harder to
remember/use IPs then it will be to do that with a few hundred TLDs?

Personally I'm going to "try" for 2-3 additional iTLDs and *ALL*
non-profit shared registries with one "interally" run meta-registry.  And
in a lot of ways I think that is overkill.

Ron

On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Paul A Vixie wrote: (in part)

> We're trying to make the network easier to connect to and to use so that there
> will be more people getting more use out of it.  If you think that domain name
> hoarding is a threat to that goal, then how about approving a couple hundred
> new iTLD's and make it a lot harder to hoard "interesting" names?
> 
> More, bigger, better, faster.  Please.

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