RE: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens upPandora's Box of

[Gregory Hicks <ghicks () cadence com>]

> Subject: RE: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens 
upPandora's     Box of
> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:25:38 -0700
> From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>
> To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>, <nanog () nanog org>
>
> Shouldn't we take all the ICANNt and DNS Related stuff to
> dns-operations?

Seems more "on-topic" there...

>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay R. Ashworth [mailto:jra () baylink com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:48 AM
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens
> upPandora's Box of
>
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 12:04:57PM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
> > In article <20080630212216.GJ8195 () cgi jachomes com>, Jay R. Ashworth 
> > <jra () baylink com> writes
> > > The Domain Name System is not now, and never has been, away to 
*find*
> > > things, anymore than 123 Elm St, Worcester MA is a way to *find* a 
> > > house.
> >
> > What about "1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA" ?
>
> Or 1 Tech Data Drive, Largo, or 1 Infinite Loop; yeah, there are lots 
of
> good examples of why addresses are random and shouldn't be used to
> *locate* things... except as keys into directories.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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