Re: [ga] Original purpose of the DNS

[Bruce James <bmjames@swbell.net>]

I can only refer you back to the study:

 

    http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-full/Arc07/msg03704.html

 

/Bruce

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Jefsey Morfin

To: ga@dnso.org

Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 05:39

Subject: Re: [ga] Original purpose of the DNS

Bruce,
you should not get confused between the need and the organization of a response to the need.

Names chosen by the users need to be supported and the DNS is a solution. But that DNS solution does not create the names and carries not intrinsic right over the User's choice, unless the Users agree to restrict their rights upon proposition of the DNS designers. Hence the need of Internet Users and DNS Designers "constituencies".

you should also note that the DNS has been adopted on the internet in a totally different context. Please consider RFC920 and tell me how much of it relates to the current practice of the DNs.
  
Jefsey


On 00:32 01/07/01, Bruce James said:

The original purpose of the DNS was to provide identifiers for network
objects that are more easily remembered and enduring than the
numerical addresses and port numbers used by the network infrastructure.
However, domain names are now often used for purposes for which
they were *not* originally intended, such as searching, corporate
identification and marketing.  And certain domain names, especially
those in the .com top-level domain, have acquired substantial
economic value, leading to conflict and competition over their ownership
and a perceived scarcity of desirable names.
/Bruce