Re: Thread 5: Defining the namespace

[Einar Stefferud <Stef@nma.com>]

>From Hank Nussbacher's message Sat, 28 Dec 1996 18:49:24 +0200 (IST):
}
}15 years ago no one imagined that the Internet would become the commercial
}success it has become.  The only thing you can blame those who designed
}COM and EDU is not being clairvoyant.
}

You must be speaking mostly for yourself.

I have understood and openly stated that all this was coming ever
since I first saw what it was in 1975, adn that is why I objected to
the original set of 3letter DNS names when they were set up.

The problem is not that no one had the vision.  The problem is that
visionaries are mostly ignored until the facts of life become too
broadly obvious to ignore any longer.  Such is the case here;-)...

Please note that I am not particularly upset about people not
listening to my pleas in the passt.  I just understand that this is
how things unfold, so there is no point in going away in a huff to
sulk in silence;-)...  The only rational behavior is to continue
trying to see into the future.

But, I do object to being told that no one foresaw what is now upon
us.  

Cheers...\Stef