Again a note of caution on names here. To a programmer, or a mathematician, DeanSpace makes perfect sense; that's because most programmers tend to think of space as simply being a kind of multi-dimensional coordinate system, where the coordinates may or may not have well defined metrics. To the average persosn, however, space implies NASA, astronauts, the moon, etc., and consequently can seem more than a little bit odd -- does this mean that Dean's going to start endorsing higher NASA budgets? Realistically, I'd be inclined to stay away from it, again with the exception being in our own context.
-- Kurt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:14 AM Subject: Re: [hackers] Ok, the network naming poll is up > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:22:31AM -0400, Zack Rosen wrote: > > The network name is an attempt at branding. The brand must as inclusive > > as possible for the network to be the most effective. > > > > Branding the network as the fordean.net network is not inclusive if we > > are shipping off fordean.net subdomains, and many sites don't use them. > > > > Branding it as the DeanSpace network is inclusive because we can give > > out fordean.net subdomains branded as DeanSpace, and brand non > > fordean.net sites as Deanspace. > > This is precisely the point I was trying to get to right there at the end. > > I'm not sure DeanSpace is my favorite, but the domain which the nodes go into > by default (if they want to) a) doesn't *have to be* and perhaps b) *should > not be* named after the Brand. > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 > The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think > Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 > > OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows > -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c >
