> Harald Tveit Alvestrand Wrote [18 November 2004 18:08] > --On torsdag, november 18, 2004 10:26:07 +0100 "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" > <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The least they want to hear is "relative ease of acquiring > v6 address > > space" even least than "relative ease to delpoy". This is > what we think > > great. This is something they do not even understand. They want a > > permanent numeric ID they will be able to use everywhere. Just in > > powering up. > > > > You know, just like a mobile number. > > you know, there was this newfangled thingie invented a few months ago > called a "name".... not only can you get it for nearly-free, > it's actually > written in letters so that you can tell someone else what it > is without > having to Spell Out All These Numbers.... gosh, I've even > heard of people > REMEMBERING them..... sometimes even on the first try..... > > and oh yes, you can use it with some fancy stuff back on the > Internet to > look up stuff like those silly numbers you never want to look > at again... I > think they call it the Domain Name System or something.... > > Numbers are for losers and technologists. So I take it that you are the only Alvestrand in Norway? That must be nice for you. But names are very rarely unique outside of a very limited context. When the "naming scheme" is changed so that the context is specified along with the name, you end up with a scheme that is just as hard (if not harder) to remember. Is it easyer to remember a telephone number itself (ignoring personal phone-books), or the exact spelling of someones name, the the exchange they are on, the country they are in and do you say "America", "The States", "The United States", "USA" etc), the exact spelling of their name (and due to your "inernational presence", I would place a bet that at least one person in the past has mis-spelt your name "Harold" when addressing you directly). As a thought - Does anyone know the number of DNS registrations in the .US ccTLD? Jools. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf