Jim,
It is a commonplace, I think, that if you can disprove the phone system analogy
below with sufficient force, or a sufficiently powerful replacement analogy, you
win. However, noone has done so. The US PTO, the large telcos, the lawyers and bits
of government involved, have to hang a hook on some regulatory precedent to give
them a feel for they territory they are dealing with.. They see phone system
deregulation and the games that can be played with the numbers and 1-800 names as
that precedent. They're reasonable people, but not visionaries. Give them a series
of hooks and they will hang their coats on them in a civilised manner. However,
revolutionary rhetoric leaves them cold. To cite two of the worn, but valid clich�s
that are known territory, (i) the best solution does not necessarily win, aka
Betamax; (ii) well-intentioned people working consensually and democratically do
not produce good solutions aka OSI. There's probably about to be (iii) technical
innovation is always stifled by the genius that produced it aka Internet, unless
the creative energies of the people who actually shepherded the system into
existence can be marshalled to demonstrate the difference of that system from the
metaphors that are being forced upon it.
MM
> Jim Dixon wrote:
> >
> > > I find the analogy with the phone system (as you present it) not fully
> > > applicable, as the phone number is a "key" in the system, and therefore
> > > unique due to the way that the system is built, while the domain name is an
> > > "attribute" of the unique key (the IP address), and therefore could be
> > > duplicated.
> >
> > I don't want to dwell on pseudo-technical side-issues but:
> >
> > You are simply wrong. You have domain names that map into multiple IP
> > addresses (round-robin DNS) and Web servers with many domain names mapping
> > into one IP address. The DNS is not 1:1 and it's not 1:N. It is N:N.
> >
> > The telephone directory system and the DNS are two very different things;
> > a telco background does not qualify you to pontificate on Internet issues.
> >
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> Regards,
>
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