RE: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens upPandora's Box of

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Subject: RE: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens

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Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:25:38 -0700
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb@byrneit.net>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>

Shouldn't we take all the ICANNt and DNS Related stuff to
dns-operations?

Seems more "on-topic" there...

From: Jay R. Ashworth [mailto:jra@baylink.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:48 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens
upPandora's Box of

> In article <20080630212216.GJ8195@cgi.jachomes.com>, Jay R. Ashworth
> <jra@baylink.com> writes
> >The Domain Name System is not now, and never has been, away to

*find*

> >things, anymore than 123 Elm St, Worcester MA is a way to *find* a
> >house.
>
> What about "1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA" ?

Or 1 Tech Data Drive, Largo, or 1 Infinite Loop; yeah, there are lots

of

good examples of why addresses are random and shouldn't be used to
*locate* things... except as keys into directories.

Cheers,
-- jra
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