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

[Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, at 02:26 [=GMT+0200], Griffini Giorgio wrote:
> Marc Schneiders wrote:

> > It does not make sense to put a long number on a car, or advertize it
> > on the radio (unless it is 1111111111). People will not remember it,
> > when they get to their office.
> > 
> 
> It depends on available tools... If people do not have safe means to find the 
> counterpart other than that 'long' number you are absolutely right... If one can 
> resort to a safe directory (which is not available or possibly incomplete 
> (contribution driven search engines) with the current DNS) things becames a 
> lot easier and consistent. Just to talk about imagine that when registering a 
> domain one get a hierarchical unique opaque identifier  (technically 
> corresponding to what actually is the 'name') and then is allowed to give 
> under his own responsability 4 to 8 (we say)  'attributes'   to put into the 
> 'directory' entry rwhich must exist and is reserved for his domain.in order of 
> what the registrant thinks to be more important to him for being found / 
> identified / searched for.
> When a user want to contact him use: a) direct opaque identifier as shown 
> on business card, email, ad...  b) search the directory by keyword which 
> likely identify the registrant (trade marks , company name, product name, 
> family name)  c) resort to a local directory entry where the opaque identifier 
> has been collected by method a,b  

I am not sure I get it. In any case, I do not understand what I can
put on my trucks with your system in stead of, say, www.kizz.com or
www.bargainbook.com.

-- 
Marc@Schneiders.ORG


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