Re: [idn] Requirements I-D

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 07:32 18.05.2000 -0400, Brian W. Spolarich wrote:
>The DNS has become in some ways all things to all people.  Its supposed
>to be able to represent a firm name, a trademark, a product name, one's
>"homestead" on the noosphere.  Register.com encourages everyone now to
>register their passions, ideas, families, etc.  This implies a certain
>amount of "pressure" on the DNS to accomodate those desires.  One can
>complain that "the DNS wasn't designed for that purpose", but the reality
>is that people want to use it that way.

you make a convincing argument that we need more than one "DNS"; the
DNS as presently constituted can't do all that and do its other jobs at the 
same time, I think.

                  Harald

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