Re: The view from my window

[David Collier-Brown <davecb@Canada.Sun.COM>]

Carl Oppedahl wrote:
> 
> At 03:55 PM 12/22/96 -0800, Gary Morrell wrote:
> >                                  The folks with the most at
> >stake, companies running new TLD registries, had absolutely
> >no representation at all in this process.
> 
> Sorry, but I disagree with you as to who has the most at stake.
> 
> The folks with the most at stake are domain name owners who have invested
> their time and sweat and money building businesses around their domain
> names.  In second place is the Internet community generally, the people who
> will or will not be well served by any of the proposed change to the domain
> name system. 

  Any sane user-interface designer will ensure that they have
a means for doing a ``prefix search'' on multiple commercial
domains, such as .com, .tm.int and .co.uk if the IAHC proposal moves
toward RFC status.
  This has the usefull side-effect, **for the two groups above**
of making it easy to maintain one's domain name while changing one's
top-level domain.

  The investors in domains like .com, on the otehr hand, will not
patticularly appreciate folks doing this.  And I suspect the DNS
will complain if they don't cache/precache carefully...

--dave
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