On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 23:09:09 PDT, Peter Deutsch said:

> You don't need a unique root if you're willing to relax the prior
> constraint that you absolutely must prevent name conflicts. I know that
> voicing this idea is considered an indictable (if not excommuncable)
> offense to many folks in this community, but frankly the prospect of
> such collisions as an alternative to the current mess just doesn't seem
> to me to be such a horrible alternative.

I'm sure you'd be pleased if half the replies to your mail bounced because
there's no 'pdeutsch' at the OTHER earthlink.net.  Of course, your mail
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably bounced too, as did [EMAIL PROTECTED], because
you got the "wrong" versions of each, and wanted to send to the OTHER one.
25% of the URLs mailed to you wouldn't point to anything in YOUR DNS.

Of course, typosquatters would love not having to wait for people to make
a typo....

But hey - if you think it's preferable to the current mess (which is
mostly political rather than technical), just remember that it's usually
unwise to use a technical solution for a social problem....

-- 
                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Senior Engineer
                                Virginia Tech

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