Harald, On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:59:47PM +0200, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: > > --On fredag, september 30, 2005 16:36:13 -0400 Michael Mealling > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >There is no reason why the addresses that system uses need to be remotely > >understandable by humans. The identifier I use to look you up and be able > >to differentiate you from someone else would be run completely > >differently from the addressing system used to route a message through a > >store and forward network. > > X.400 tried that. So did X.25. > > I think one of the less-appreciated reasons the Internet succeedd was that > its unique identifiers were *memorable*.
And the use of a very simple characterset for these identifiers helped a lot too. David Kessens --- _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
