Re: don heath's comments

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 1:09 PM -0500 11/24/96, Ron Fitzherbert wrote:

Didn't you just describe the AT&T's portion of InterNIC? Directory
services? I'm a little puzzled at how Yahoo, Lycos, & Alta Vista all
provide this type of service (for the web at least) and all we can do
at InterNIC is search the RFC collection (Nomenclator is still
vaporware and The On-line X.500 Directory Implementations Catalog is so
very user friendly). Plus there are many sites out there mirroring the
RFC's for free.

> 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.
>


Simon

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