On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 23:09:09 PDT, Peter Deutsch said: > You don't need a unique root if you're willing to relax the prior > constraint that you absolutely must prevent name conflicts. I know that > voicing this idea is considered an indictable (if not excommuncable) > offense to many folks in this community, but frankly the prospect of > such collisions as an alternative to the current mess just doesn't seem > to me to be such a horrible alternative. I'm sure you'd be pleased if half the replies to your mail bounced because there's no 'pdeutsch' at the OTHER earthlink.net. Of course, your mail to keydist@cafax.se probably bounced too, as did isdf@isoc.org, because you got the "wrong" versions of each, and wanted to send to the OTHER one. 25% of the URLs mailed to you wouldn't point to anything in YOUR DNS. Of course, typosquatters would love not having to wait for people to make a typo.... But hey - if you think it's preferable to the current mess (which is mostly political rather than technical), just remember that it's usually unwise to use a technical solution for a social problem.... -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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