> > I will have to agree with you on that, Bob. That and the need for
> > localization methodologies to insure you get Bob's Bar and Grill in your
> > local area, not in Alaska, Florida, or Hawaii. And that, I feel, is far
> > more important an issue than domain names. Most business is local, and
> Although it will be changing shortly, Canada has had localized domain names
> for some time. A local company would get 'company.city.prov.ca' as a domain
> name. The problem with that is that your company now looks like a small fish
This, and the .us TLD are nomenclature based attempts at localization
placed on top of a system that already does some localization based
caching. They are, in my opinion, inappropriate manual means of doing
what has to be done automatically by the network. They require
forethought and redundant effort by the user, and are extremely
inflexible.
> I think that local search engines are the best way to get around the problem
> of finding a local supplier. We run one such engine, and there are many
> others out there. If you want to find Bob's Garage you shouldn't be using
> the Yahoos or Altavistas but local directories.
But you then need to know what your local search engine is named.
Once again, it is a manual user-knowledge based system. And with the
growth of roaming devices, be they commuters having palm pilots with
Cellular Modems, or folks going down the major corridors in an RV, the
number of users who know their geographic location is diminishing.
Scenario: John and Mary are on the highway, John says "Hey, where's a
Wendy's?" Mary plops open her laptop and logs in via cell modem to her
ISP's roaming dial-up. (Many ISP's have national roaming, and many even
lease dial-ups from dialup wholesalers.)
You should be able to type "wendys" into the URL slot of your browser,
and have the local Wendy's home page or order page just pop up. This is
not so different from what happens already with the caching name servers.
All that I _suspect_ we need, is to allow non-exclusive, not upwardly
propagatable domain names. Perhaps that means we need another TLD, a
".loc" TLD, I di not know. I think that it is far better to let the name
server system handle this, than to force us to know where we are, let
alone force us to use some obscure company.town.county.state.us or
company.zipcode.us domain name system.
And then there are the emergency service requests:
Scenario: A commbox mounted on an interstate truck mounted on a
railroad flat car detects a fire. "Combox221, Owner: Consolidated
Freightways, GPS Location ... Detects tepm 510 degrees. Conclusion: FIRE!"
Route immediately to the firestation.loc
Scenario: Hiker, having fallen and broken his leg, is comatose. His
medimonitor sends "Medimonitor 2290567844. Owner Harris, Fred. Pulse
45, body temp 94.3 and falling. Medical Emergency: Hypothermia,
Clinical." route immediately to emergency.loc
Scenario: Executive, having heart attack, veers off highway and
punches emergency services request. "Auto: BMW 990j, Reg: ATTABOY
Emergency Request, type unknown. Engine off. GPS Location.... "
Route immediately to police.loc and maybe emergency.loc
These should be routed immediately to regional sites without having to
migrate up and down some chain with the assumption that all the internet
is working. Since I am continuously polling a bunch of search engines
around the country, (and soon, the world,) I see over and over again that
the internet is NOT working all the time! Portions of it just disappear
for minutes, even hours. One should not have to rely on a large part of
it working to handle local oriented requests. After all, the telephone
company doesn't. They have localization protocols, the "1-" and area code
system. The internet needs something similar. It will reduce domain name
congestion, and provide improved services to non-tech people and the
growing number of devices.
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