NANOG Digest, Vol 5, Issue 92

[mack]

Message: 7
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:31:33 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up
Pandora'sBox of
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I don't see what you're saying as supporting ICANN's actions. If DNS
is
irrelevant for these purposes, then why bother "making a bad solution a
bit
worse." Just let it become, over the next 25 years, some mid-level
directory resource that users see less and less of, until it's almost
as
irrelevant as IP address.

One could make the argument this is already the case.
If I want to find a particular web site for a specific local company,
I usually search in google rather than try and find the web site by guessing
the name. So in reality the web site name is already irrelevant for local
small businesses.

For large national and international companies, we can mostly depend on .com
mapping correctly as they have spent large sums of money protecting their brands.
Ie. mcdonalds.com maps to the fast food joint rather than some other family
owned business.

In 25 years a name will map to .com or be irrelevant with the current proposal.
I would be happy to be proven wrong but time will tell.

(*I* don't buy that, but then again, I'm making the argument that we've
really screwed up with DNS)
... JG
--
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI -
http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and]
then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail
spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many
apples.

--
LR Mack McBride
Network Administrator
Alpha Red, Inc.

[Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.]

Post by mack
In 25 years a name will map to .com or be irrelevant with the current proposal.
I would be happy to be proven wrong but time will tell.

And of course by then all but BGP (between routers) and HTTP will have
been blocked as security risks.