Keith Moore wrote:
>
> > If easy-to-type was the original problem we could do away with DNS
> > altogether and just use IP addresses everywhere, that could even get
> > rid of a lot of lawyers...
>
> if it would really get rid of lawyers, it would be well worth it...
>
> Keith
>
> p.s. the lawyers wouldn't give up so easily...they would simply
> insist that we support IP addresses with octet values greater than 255.
>
And they would insist that something like
180.035.069.037
would spell 1-800-Flowers and try to reserve an IP address based on that
name.
--
Henning Schulzrinne http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs