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Re: Mapping (social) reality into Internet (was: Regional ITLDS & TLD inter-fact)


The postal analogy works because the act of parsing is closely coupled
to the act of routing/delivery.

That is only partially true for iTLD. Most times when we infer meaning
from the sub-strings in FQDN, zealots argue we are deluding ourselves.

However in human factors terms, I think you offer one good example of
why solving a machine-legals issue (10,000 iTLD) will be a problem for
people (rule-of-seven and short/memorable) and procedures.

-George

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