Re: Thread 5: Defining the namespace

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 3:46 PM -0800 12/26/96, Michael Dillon wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Simon Higgs wrote:
>
> > If the committee can't divide up the name space in a meaningful way,
> > they have fucked up their number one goal, which is the consistent
> > administration of the name space.
>
> The namespace cannot be *DIVIDED* up in a meaningful way.


Of course it can.

> Your statement
> implies that the namespace is some sort of unitary thing and the only
> problem is to find where the natural divisions lay.
>

Uh... it's called library science. How else do think you can go into a
library or bookshop and find what you are looking for? What do you
think Yahoo, Lycos, Alta-Vista etc. do?

Why was .COM and .EDU created to distinguish between commercial and
educational organizations? What should be happening now is just further
division, focus, and refinement of the name space.

> But it's not like that at all. The IAHC will not be dividing up anything.
> They will be CREATING a namespace. And if they do a good job there will
> be significant overlap between the gTLD's in the sense that people will
> not feel restricted to only one possible gTLD choice.
>

The name space exists hierarchically under ".". Any new name space
created will be a new division under root. This is just semantics.

Regards,

Simon

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