Re: [icann-europe] Recommended Reading: Brad Templeton on ICANN and the DNS

["Griffini Giorgio" <grunz@tin.it>]

When answering to Lutz Donnerhacke  Thomas Roessler wrote:

> >This new name system must be able to collect different mappings 
> >without collision. The result might be a search engine like name 
> >service ...
> 
> ... and the use of phone numbers instead of e-mail addresses?  No 
> thanks. ;-)
> 

This is more or less exactly what millions of users actually do when they use 
ICQ. Surely is not as friendly as using a name but actually works well for 
zillions telephone device out there. All other benifical considerations about 
this kind of approach show up by themselves (no uniqueness problems, IP 
claims insulated within their  'natural'  geographical boundaries... etc...)
The problem is that very few (percentually speaking) domain name holders 
would like to sacrifice the 'privilege' of being identified by the wordlwide 
unique 'name' they  (usually) had the chance to choose and register by 
themselves . Also so many companies made this a business and some of 
them even a 'very big' business...that there are very few chances for a switch 
to this new (although technically old) paradigm in the short term.
BTW, looking at the bare level, IPM (Inter Personal Messagging) is not 
different from IPC  (Inter Personal Conversation) when dealing on how to 
reach the destination partner. The address must be unique. The interesting 
thing is that we have in place an unique worldwide endpoint addressing 
system that works fine and we are - more or less deliberately - ignoring this 
fact. With the whole multiple/differentiated/chartered TLDs dreams  we all are 
just trying to climb on flat mirrors surfaces to  just to save our very own 
privileges. 
On these premises, 'approaching a solution'  is a completely different job.
IMHO of course...

Best Regards
Giorgio Griffini



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