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

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