Carl Malamud wrote: > Hmmm ... seems like the telephone system has a similar system. You dial 411 > and ask for "Malamud@StewartsPoint" and a human/humanoid answers "Please choose". > There's certainly room for systems like RealNames and certainly rooms for > other namespaces that handle ambiguity, but the DNS serves a pretty useful purpose > of resolving domain names to various resource records. Rather than > muck with it, I like Peter's approach of trying to build new services and > keeping the existing one in place. Please note that the "harris" solutions were presented as meta-systems. My comments implied no changes whatosever to the DNS. Actually, my comments denied any changes in the DNS in order to be applied. If it was otherwise intepreted by anyone, may this msg eliminate the ambiguity ;-) BTW, they can also be automated as I commented before. Cheers, Ed Gerck > > > Regards, > > Carl > > > "vinton g. cerf" wrote: > > > > > ed, > > > > > > sorry I asked an ambiguous question! > > > > > > your answer worked for the case that harris.com was unambiguous. > > > > As below, the answer works when an email address returns ambiguous results > > -- whatever the cause of that ambiguity. > > > > > I was trying to ask what if the "harris.com" part of "user@harris.com" produced ambiguous results? > > > > In the same way, where both my short and long answers apply. Please note > > that you just moved the same problem to a higher node. To exemplify, the short > > answer could be something like: > > ----- > > This is an automatic reply to your request for: > > > > Harris.COM > > > > 2 different domain names are named Harris.COM > > > > Please choose which one of the following domain names you > > would like to reach, by clicking on the link shown on the right. > > > > Harris Motor Company at Harris.COM > > > > Harris Models at Harris.COM > > -------------------------- > > > > - > This message was passed through ietf_censored@carmen.ipv6.cselt.it, which > is a sublist of ietf@ietf.org. Not all messages are passed. > Decisions on what to pass are made solely by Raffaele D'Albenzio.