It appears that Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: >Not sure what you mean about HAM radio operators. But I do have the >sense that people keep trying to make something that is fundamentally >unworkable - globally unique names that scale to the world's population >that people actually want to use. Well, we do have phone numbers which are unique, largely meaningless, and we all at least used to be able to remember a fair number of them. I'm not sure they're all that useful as a model, though.