Re: [ga] FW: Comment from the gTLD Registry Constituency

[Allan Liska <allan@allan.org>]

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Hello J-F,

Sunday, September 29, 2002, 9:30:10 PM, you wrote:

JFCJM> Dear Peter,
JFCJM> the entire domain name issue is contradictory due to the ACPA and IP people
JFCJM> misunderstanding the nature of the domain name. I went into the same
JFCJM> problem at the IETF with the multinational and Babel Names.

JFCJM> There are actually three adressing layers:
JFCJM> 1. hardware: the IP address
JFCJM> 2. software: the domain name reoslving into the IP address
JFCJM> 3. brainware: the mnemonic resolving in people's mind to .com or for locall
JFCJM> name to the local ccTLD.

Incorrect.

The hardware address is the Media Access Control -- the MAC address is
a unique address assigned to every Network Interface Card.  An IP
Address is a software-based address that is generally controlled
through TCP software installed on the device.

As far as "brainware" that makes absolutely no sense in this context,
because it has nothing to do with addressing.


allan
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Allan Liska
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