Re: Reexamining premises (was Re: UN plans to take over our job!)

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Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:

Beyond that, the mapping should be under control of the appropriate party. I don't want the moral equivalent to "Google-bombing" to be able to divert, say, my incoming mail.

I don't think that this is what Michael was suggesting. His point as I
understand it is that DNS is designed to resolve a name to a machine
rather than a name,service pair to a machine.

Sort of. What I was trying to get at was that DNS is designed to resolve an identifier to a machine for consumption by computer programs, not as a human factors component of a user facing system capable of helping humans get things done that humans care about. Its the difference between forcing my grandmother to learn SQL to do a search and giving her "Ask Jeeves".

To get specific for a moment, my suggestion here is that the IETF take a look at what the W3C and the general web community is doing around navigation, tagging (see Technorati, del.icio.us, flickr), advances in NLP that Google is working on, etc. Perhaps the solution is to tell the world that DNS isn't really meant for your grandmother or your favorite polititicain and instead we're going to do something at the web layer that's more in tune with how people are actually using the Internet, not how mail gets routed....

And maybe that work doesn't belong here....

-MM

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