Message: 7
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:31:33 -0500 (CDT)
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Subject: Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up
Pandora'sBox of
To: davids@webmaster.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Message-ID: <200806290231.m5T2VXob020706@aurora.sol.net>
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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.