Re: BIND

["Alexei Polkhanov" <usenet@monteaureus.com>]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 02:34:12 +0000, David Starner wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 18:58:32 -0400, Alexei Polkhanov wrote:
> 
>> Why I cannot type "Congress Library" but I
>> have to go and type "dsgdsgf.dsfgdsfg.hfdhdf.gov" ? 
> 
> Which Congress Library? The Trades Unions Congress Library, or the 
> Palau Congress Library? Or do you want the American Library Associations
> Congress on Library and Information Services? Or the World Library and
> Information Congress?
> 
> As a human in context, I would guess you mean the Library of Congress, but
> my guesses aren't always right. What should "Steve Jackson" take you to?
> Steve Jackson Games? The personal webpage of Steve Jackson (of SJG)?
> The Steve Jackson who's a professor of biology at Cambridge? The Steve
> Jackson who's a professor of botany at the University of Wyoming? The
> page of the Steve Jackson that started Games Workshop?
> 
> Secondly, I've see few web address like "dsgdsgf.dsfgdsfg.hfdhdf.gov". The
> Library of Congress is www.loc.gov. Most people who need that site more
> than once or twice can remember that 11 character, especially as it's www
> (terribly common) + loc (Library Of Congress) + gov (since it's a US
> government institution.) Likewise www.sjgames.com isn't terribly hard to
> remember either. Much easier than a 10 digit phone number. The hard ones
> tend to be obscure and transitory, which would be terribly hard to fit
> into your system. 
> 

I am not imagining this things. There an RFC draft already, protocol called XRP. 
http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/biz/draft-brunner-xrp-00.txt 

> Finally, just like people record the phone numbers important to them,
> people can bookmark pages they want to go back to. If you want "Congress
> Library" to go to www.loc.gov, you can do so, and no one will complain. If
> you want Steve Jackson to link to your grandson's webpage, no problem.

from my understanding XRP is including DNS in its recent form as a subset.

We should really change subject from BIND to XRP then. Leave the BIND alone
and think about implementation of XRP server which has little to do with
BIND.

Sorry, whole discussion now sounds like an offtopic here, this is Ada 
newsgroup after all.

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