RE: [wg-c] Recap from past threads...

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

> From: Dave Crocker [mailto:dcrocker@brandenburg.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 11:21 PM
>
> At 11:07 PM 8/22/99 , Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> >This is an excellent point. But, it is easier to rename than to
> >renumber, by a bunch. I don't think SLD owners would
> hesitate to move to
> >another TLD, on another registry, if there were such a beast.
>
> Yup.  No publicity/marketing trouble at all for Amazon.com to rename.
>
> And there certainly isn't a problem with embedded web references on
> thousands of pages that reference microsoft.com
>
> Domain names are early binding.  IP addresses are late
> binding.  It's far
> easier to modify late-bound information.

What may be true for programming isn't always true for systems. Besides,
it ALWAYS depends on the binding mechanism and how closely coupled the
binding actually is. Actual practice will show that what I state is
true. I have taken MHSC through two re-numbers and four re-names. The
former due to upstream ISP changes, and the latter due to marketing
requirements. In fact, after the second, of each, I virtualized
everything and it is now not much of a bother (whoops, there goes the
lock-in argument). My VPN nets are largely on RFC1918 addresses, on an
internal TLD (try MHSC.VPN at RS5.MHSC.NET, watch out for the firewall).